1. Getting a book through the post -- this time, Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. It's illustrated by Mervyn Peake, which is why I bought it. The pictures are ink drawings on white paper, but the shading is so dense for this dark work that it almost looks as if the light areas are drawn in, rather than the shadows.
2. Tiny Tin Lady. Particularly the song Moon Moves.
3. Sharing a box of chocolates with Katie.
Cistern, club and go.
1. We've got water of some kind -- the sound of the loo cistern filling is pretty good to hear this morning. 2. Susan has invited to us ...
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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...