1. Exploring a new footpath through town. It goes between Claremont Primary School and Hawkenbury -- most of the way it runs between high back fences so there isn't much to see. I could hear hoses and dogs and children playing.
2. Ducking under a dog rose and catching the fragrance -- but only just.
3. A story called 'The Man Who Saw the Elephant' by Avram Davidson. The man is a quaker, Friend Ezra Simmons, and the elephant is... well, track down the story, because it is gentle and wholesome and will leave you knowing that the world is full of wonders.
Winter is passing, toad in the hole and mulled wine.
1. It is cold (although less chill than it has been) and cloudy (although less grey than it has been) and a robin sings loudly from the top ...
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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...