1. A spindle tree with the orange seeds just bursting out of the pink cases cheers me up as I struggle up the hill across the park.
2. "I feel so much better for that," I tell my yoga teacher at the end of the class.
3. By chance I come across an old friend on Radio 4 -- a thriller adapted from Sei Shonagon's The Pillow Book. It is beautifully done in terms of sound effects and voice acting. The Empress, in particular, is astonishing -- refined and restrained and authoritative all at once.
Start of the heat, finishing early and lights out.
1. It's not too long after 8am and I can already feel the heat in the air as I begin my walk on the common. My body responds to the warm...
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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 ...