1. On the breakfast bar, a piece of golden honeycomb is flanked by two silver knives.
2. Standing on a jetty watching carp kiss the water below us.
3. Tucked between the pages of my new Moomin book, I find again the gift tag that Nick up on the wrapping.
4. The view of the grey hotel among autumn trees on the other side of the valley.
5. Slices of tender, pink venison surrounded by a chilli-chocolate sauce.
6. Coming back to our room after dinner and finding that bed that was rumpled from our afternoon nap has been made and turned down; and the towels and bathrobes that we left strewn around the room have been carefully hung up.
Wet Sunday, resting and re-do.
1. We wake to the sound of heavy rain -- just right for a simple Sunday. 2. I put my dough in a bowl to rest, and take a quiet half-hour mys...
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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...