1. Going back to sleep for half an hour.
2. A last rose in the midst of leafless briars. It is an unremarkable plastic pink colour by day, but at night it glows.
3. A large bowl of bright yellow butternut squash soup. And the smell of coriander as I am chopping it to add to this soup.
Gale, fallen and ready for school.
1. The wind is thumping the rain against the house, but we don't have to go anywhere today. 2. In the park after supper I pick up a han...
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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. 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...