Sunday, June 25, 2006

Box o' books, going and flowers.

1. The postman knocking before he has another Amazon parcel for me -- this from Cat, Alan and Ellie contains: If on a winter's night a traveller by Italo Calvino; Death: the High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman and Conrad's Fate by Diana Wynne Jones. Will this birthday never end?

2. Buying a travel mug so I can:
    a. take my tea with me when I am running late.
    b. say 'no' to paper cups.
3. The sound of rose petals falling off the mantelpiece.
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