Sunday, March 13, 2011

Salad, wardrobe and showing off.

1. To chop up tomatoes for a salad and scatter the dish with parsley and chives from the garden.

2. A dinosaur t-shirt and a preppy tobacco-coloured tank top and marine blue polo shirt -- a few sizes too big and perfect for summer -- brought as a gift for Alec.

3. To show a visitor the best parts of your home town.
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Flock, turn and cards.

1. A flock of birds -- chacking and calling to each other -- whirls across the late afternoon sky, moving like a single creature. 2. With on...

  • Crust, donuts and wait.
     1. Stirring the brewing coffee to break the floating crust and bring up the crema. 2. We have donuts to give the children at teatime. 3. Th...
  • Bee, green beans and movie night.
    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...