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1. When I go down to the sandwich van, I find the air outside is warmer than the air inside, and I'm tempted to stand around chatting, rather than hurrying back indoors to get away from a biting wind laced with freezing rain.
2. The lie of the land has caught a pocket of warm, damp air against the slope. We stand for a moment feeling the heat.
3. I am so tired by the end of the evening that I fall asleep almost before I realise I've got into bed.
Slow worm, peacock butterfly and striations.
1. A slow worm backs into his burrow, his mild resentful gaze holding ours. 2. Peacock butterfly -- Persian rug colours -- rests open in the...
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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...