1. Buckets of cornflowers and sweet williams and dahlias at the Farmers' Market.
2. Scaling a fish for the first time - don't the scales get everywhere!
3. Sin City, which is a horribly violent film, but really intriguingly shot in B&W but with little slashes of colour as needed - red shoes, golden hair, yellow bastard, turquoise car. It has three stories that touch each other and then veer apart. And it makes you care about nasty, nasty men, too.
Consolation, Effra and icing.
1. I flee Tunbridge Wells and its water woes for a day of wandering London with my aunt. A bit of Turner, a bit of Constable and some miscel...
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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...