1. My mother scrubs the mould off our kitchen window frame.
2. Stuffing sacks of old clothes into the recycling bin. The hopper closes with a polite clang.
3. A pair of palm-sized portobello mushrooms in our vegetable box. Their dense flesh looks like real food. I imagine how a hunter-gather would have felt to find them on her patch. Perhaps she would have smiled and thought: "That's supper sorted."
Drift, cutting fruit and clear floor.
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1. The cottage across the carpark is covered in scaffolding. Now that the roofers have gone home, the family has climbed up to see the view ...