Friday, July 23, 2010

Bored now mum, voice of experience and food writing.

1. Mums-to-be lie in deep relaxation. The whole class is still and silent as logs. Apart from Baby Badger who is tickling me from the inside and trying to make me laugh.

2. Today there is time to sit on the sofa with my mother and look over a baby catalogue.

3. After supper, Katie brings out a pile of vegetarian cookbooks for me to look over. I wallow in accounts of vegan sticky toffee pudding, and silken tofu.

Magnolia, no coat and weeding.

1. The drifts of pink and white petals drying in the gutters and flattened on to the pavement suggest that the magnolia on the corner of Bel...