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.
White grapes, gothic novel and predictions.
1. This week's grapes are particularly good -- a little hard so they burst well, and then both sweet and sharp. 2. Before Nick comes up...
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1. Stirring the brewing coffee to break the floating crust and bring up the crema. 2. We have donuts to give the children at teatime. 3. Th...
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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...