1. Louise needs help planning a PE lesson -- we go to Tonbridge Racecourse and find a spot by the river to play bowling and fielding games. People lie around on the grass, or potter along the paths. A kite like a great black bird of prey looks down on us.
2. Tim and Rachel are celebrating their wedding anniversary -- so Nick and I mark day we met by going out to our the restaurant where we had our first date. It's been three years and they've gone so quickly, although it sometimes it's hard to remember how things were before.
3. Tulips -- butter yellow with crimson flares and flashes. Raspberry ripple ice cream.
Stars, reading aloud and distracted.
1. Our last few gingerbread stars are still crisp and good; still tasting of the butter we measured and melted and mixed. 2. I read aloud fr...
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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...
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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 ...