1. Waking early and discovering it's not Monday -- it's still Sunday.
2. The sky was clear enough when I got up, but now the earth has rolled over, pulled the fog around itself and gone back to sleep.
3. While waiting to pay: 'They're three for two.' So I bring him the rejected third book. It's an old favourite of mine.
Lifting the dust, tape and stitch.
1. The vacuum cleaner lifts the dust and shines the surface of the floor. 2. The tacky circular sound that happens when I peel off a generou...
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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...