Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Tea's up, nest and vegetables.

1. Nick brings tea -- and a plate of his home-made jam tarts -- into the sitting room. My mother is very impressed.

2. His set of pastry cutters nest so that you can pick them up as one; but they separate easily.

3. New potatoes that taste of earth and... well potato. A sweet, soothing, cold and juicy piece of galia melon. I love Able and Cole.
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Blue bath, in between and tomorrow's weather.

1. I float in a bath the colour of the deep sea listening to the instructions for a blue-themed writing workshop. 2. Just as  Traitors  gets...

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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...
  • 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...