Monday, July 07, 2025

Cleaner than before, line dancing and downpour.

1. This has been frustrating, but the windows are now at least cleaner than they were.

2. There is country and western music on the Pantiles. Three serious children in cowboy boots are line-dancing in front of the bandstand.

3. Watching the rain sheeting across the car park, and hearing it hissing off the roof into my water butt.

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Blue glass, hot pink and bergamot.

1. Our taxi driver has a string of blue glass beads hanging by his window. He speaks proudly about his two boys -- one at school with my son...

  • 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...