Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Watering cans, eating alone and settling down.

1. The grounding weight of my watering cans.

2. Our schedules mean that I eat supper alone in the peaceable, silent kitchen.

3. Now the children have gone to bed and it's darker and a little cooler, I can focus on writing one of the four articles I should have completed today.

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Lifting the dust, tape and stitch.

1. The vacuum cleaner lifts the dust and shines the surface of the floor. 2. The tacky circular sound that happens when I peel off a generou...

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    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...
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    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...
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    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...