1. Oli eating polenta and carrot jam for breakfast. They were part of his birthday present from us -- I put the carrot jam in to see what he would do with it... I didn't imagine that he would think of breakfast.
2. We were so deep in coversation about the person we were about to pick up that we drove straight past him.
3. Talking about books and recalling things I read years ago. My favourite recall was a Robert Silverberg book -- Gilgamesh in the Outback -- Gilgamesh is wandering hell having lost his friend Enkidu after a disagreement. He runs into Robert E. Howard (the man who wrote Conan the Barbarian) and H.P. Lovecraft. From what I remember Robert E. Howard spends the rest of the story trying to shed Lovecraft so he can hang out with Gilgamesh, who resembles Conan in lots of ways.
After shopping, second to last bottle of red and Jupiter.
1. Arm-in-arm, rather pleased with our bags of shopping, we cross the park. 2. The second-to-last bottle of red in the cellar turns out to b...
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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. Oli has written a poem describing how Tunbridge Wells makes him veer between wanting to fall in love and wanting to shoot people. Which i...
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1. The cottage across the carpark is covered in scaffolding. Now that the roofers have gone home, the family has climbed up to see the view ...