Thursday, April 14, 2022

Check list, puzzle and out out.

1. Suddenly Bettany has a clipboard and is making a tick list for her packing.

2. I make a call to my parents to check the children are behaving. Nick and Alec take it over to do the day's Wordle.

3. Nick and I, just the two of us, go out for a leisurely supper and make our way through half a dozen  oysters of various origins, a seafood platter and a bottle of Brut.

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Rising, skiing and winter TV.

1. Watching the thermometer lounging in the marmalade pan creep up to 104C. 2. Fine rain is blowing on a mean wind across the slope, but she...

  • Bee, green beans and movie night.
    1. An enormous fat bumble bee at work. She is so bulky that she can knock dead blossoms out of the way as she gets right in to the new jasmi...
  • Midsummer, feeding and cakes.
    1. The shortest night and the longest day. I was up at Wellington Rocks with Anna, Paul and Jason. We couldn't see the sun through the m...
  • As needed, forgotten cake and syrup.
    1. I promised myself I wouldn't moan and grumble about it -- but I do. And as if by magic, a very kind friend produces the required blaz...