1. I tell the doctor how I am feeling and he gives me some flash cards to look at. I put 'I am so lonely' and 'I often think about suicide' and 'There is no hope' on the false pile.
2. The sun is warm but the air is cool and shopkeepers are arguing about whether to have the door open or not.
3. Among pink camelia flowers browned by last week's icy weather, a single perfect bloom.
As needed, forgotten cake and syrup.
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...
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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...