Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Hot tea, other mothers and burlesque.

1. Breakfast is so slow these days that I get to drink my tea while it's still hot.

2. I run into one of the NCT mothers in town, and we go for coffee. I've been neglecting my group recently, and it was... it was actually a relief to catch up.

3. I run into Mr Lockhart -- which is good, because I've been wanting to congratulate him on his Sketchy Burlesque. It's an evening of... performance art, with a drawing class thrown in. 
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Salt, appointment and looking out.

1. A man from a white van is trundling and scraping a red plastic grit spreader around the car park, which has been an ice rink these last f...

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    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...
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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...
  • 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...