1. Owning a steamer because it means you can cook an entire meal on one gas ring.
2. Tinned fruit cocktail - the sort with dyed red cherries.
3. Ironing silk because it starts out so scrumpled and crispy and comes out shimmery and soft.
Sparrows, sourdough and hoard.
1. Fluttering on the edge of vision -- a few little brown sparrows touch down in the garden, and then take off again. 2. We suddenly remembe...
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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...