Monday, July 11, 2011

Grandville, handiwork and shadow.

1. Our library has a small but imaginative collection of graphic novels -- to my delight, we find the second of Bryan Talbot's Grandville series, a scientific detective romance thriller about an anthropomorphic badger.

2. Alec holds a piece of new potato in his entire hand and presses into into his mouth.

3. The low sun stretches a thrush's shadow up the pavement.
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Dress, drink and catch-up.

1. Walking out of the theatre, I hold his hand so he's not tempted to bolt across the swirly carpet into the forest of legs. We agree 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...
  • As needed, forgotten cake and syrup.
    1. I promised myself I wouldn't moan and grumble about it -- but I do. And as if by magic, a very kind friend produces the required blaz...