Saturday, February 07, 2009

While you work, new paper and to do.

1. The bus driver is singing 'I'm on the top of the world and looking down on creation' which is one of my favourite songs ever.

2. The fresh copies of the paper are fat and slightly damp. I like putting mine in my bag to take home.

3. Louise is coming to dinner. I run through a list of things to do before she arrives, and because I'm running late, switch some items from 'must do' to 'would have liked to have done'. Nick comes home early and picks up all the 'would have liked' items before I've even explained what they are.
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Winter is passing, toad in the hole and mulled wine.

1. It is cold (although less chill than it has been) and cloudy (although less grey than it has been) and a robin sings loudly from the top ...

  • Bee, green beans and movie night.
    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...
  • Midsummer, feeding and cakes.
    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...
  • 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...