Before I forget -- the Oxfam bookshop here in Tunbridge Wells has a brilliant window display. It's all the strange things people have left tucked in donated books: cards, letters, bookmarks, bills, even some sheet music. Have a look if you're down that way.
1. Half a hundred starlings spring from a rowan tree, top branches stripped of berries.
2. He picks up Jane's pushchair -- and son -- in his arms and carries it up the steps. "'E's used to it wiv 'is own li'tl boy," says the girl walking behind him. At the top of the steps he wheels it over the bridge -- there's a swagger in his step, so I think he felt good about it -- and carries it down the other side.
3. Three tiny school girls on their way home at lunchtime. The zippers on their grey tunics are silver flowers.
Book cupboard, haws and dinner.
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