1. Flatpack furniture is heavy if you don't have a car; so getting it home is a beautiful thing. And the floaty feeling in your arms have after you put down a heavy load. Plus the funny wobbly feeling that makes it difficult to do anything with accuracy - 'I'm sorry, I can't lay the table. I'd probably drop a glass.'
2. My parents live in the middle of dark forest, far from streelights and smog, so I love arriving there at night and seeing the stars for the first time in weeks.
3. The deep midnight blues and jewelly reds of anemones.
Jar, soap and end of a slog.
1. For now, we're a household with a jar of home made chocolate chip cookies. 2. For the bathroom, a new bar of Marseilles soap with the...
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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...