Monday, September 01, 2025

Slow worm, peacock butterfly and striations.

1. A slow worm backs into his burrow, his mild resentful gaze holding ours.

2. Peacock butterfly -- Persian rug colours -- rests open in the afternoon sun.

3. Our vegetable curry has an autumn look to it -- the striations and speckles of marrow and graffiti aubergine, and constellations of sweetcorn.

Follow Her, no birds and Burns Night.

1. I am intrigued by an article in The Guardian  about psychic phone lines, and then by the author's upcoming thriller about a toxic lif...