1. As we drink coffee in the garden, we hear a burst of applause from the cricket.
2. Opening the potato sack, I discover a bag of Jersey Royals smelling of earth and summer.
3. The evening park is crowded with teenagers. It's as if the babies and toddlers from the afternoon have all grown up.
Common, glass and French boys.
1. I walk home across the common -- it's bruised and muddy, but still here, and birds are calling to each other. 2. Now I have time to s...
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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...