Monday, August 25, 2025

Stick, babies and naan.

1. I find a stick with the right sort of fork arrangement for pulling down elderberry branches.

2. There are babies everywhere, being held and rocked and jigged in time with the music, or sitting splayed on the grass with picnic food in their fists or sleeping in their pushchairs in the shade.

3. The naan is the kind packed with a layer of bright yellow coconut.

Follow Her, no birds and Burns Night.

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