Friday, April 22, 2005

Pink, blue and bubbles.

1. I am delighted to announce that the cherry trees up Mount Edgcombe Road are now in full glorious pink bloom. They make me think of pink coconut cakes.

2. A few bluebells growing under the scrubby, scratchy hedge round the Vale Road Hotel.

3. Outside the Early Learning Centre they have set up a bubble-blowing machine. When children see it, they wriggle away from their parents and run towards it.

As needed, forgotten cake and syrup.

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