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.

Watering cans, eating alone and settling down.

1. The grounding weight of my watering cans. 2. Our schedules mean that I eat supper alone in the peaceable, silent kitchen. 3. Now the chil...