1. We -- that is all the people in the park -- keep glancing at the sky. It's dry slate grey, and growing darker by the minute. The trees in the park are lit up by the long winter sun, and when I'm not watching the sky, I'm marvelling at each twig picked out against the sky.
2. To pick out cakes for Saturday tea at the bakers.
3. To press down a sandwich and feel the Little Gem lettuce crunch inside it.
Change in weather, dessert and requiem.
1. In the time it took us to walk through the house from the back garden to the front, the air has filled with misty drizzle. 2. She had the...
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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...
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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...