1. My new fishnet tights, which are black-coffee-with-sun-shining-through-it brown.
2. I have bought myself a cook's notebook - the Dodo sort. I've wanted a book to organise my stash of torn-out recipes for ages and ages; and I've been looking for an excuse to buy one of Dodo's slightly expensive but whimsical books. So I did it. I love the thought of my future children trying to decipher my scrawled notes - 'Couldn't get goose. Used a partridge.' And 'Much improved by a few spoonfuls of whiskey.' And 'soap works.' And 'NB not technically vegetarian, but no-one noticed.'
3. The amount of washing up left by a pizza, ie, not much.
News, white chocolate and Venice.
1. Instead of the horrible news on my phone, I have a new Fortean Times to read at breakfast. 2. I'm thinking there is no chance we...
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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...