1. Chimney pots trying to reach above the grey rainy morning.
2. Putting a small dish of mince topped with sliced potatoes into the oven. There is nutmeg and cheese among the layers.
3. To run my fingers over the latest section of my sewing and feel the smooth satin stitch and the nubbly mountains raised by Rhodes stitch.
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...