1. Mary Poppins - because P L Travers made the books quite dark, but also very reassuring and wonderfully imaginative. I like best the story about Neleus coming down off his pedestal just for one hour to play with Jane and Michael.
2. Making my hot chocolate in a smaller mug than usual made it properly thick and chocolatey. Mmmm.
3. Waking at about 4am, hearing birdsong and then going back to sleep again.
Friendly, strayed and cedar.
1. In the small hours, when I can't get back to sleep, there's a friendly, familiar Terry Pratchett book waiting on my phone. 2. 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. Oli has written a poem describing how Tunbridge Wells makes him veer between wanting to fall in love and wanting to shoot people. Which i...