Sunday, July 10, 2005

OJ, sweetpeas and beer.

1. Drinking orange juice when you have a hangover.

2. The colours and the scent of sweetpeas. I have a bunch which includes blood red, white and mauve. The scent is presently filling the flat.

3. Beer in the fridge. It is the nicest thing to pull out a 300ml bottle and drink it with your lunch on a Saturday.

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