1. Alec and I put some birdseed out, and now there are two fat doves in the garden. He's entranced. I hope he doesn't think birds grow from birdseed.
2. I take home a slice of cake from Juliet's and eat it. I feel like a leopard dragging its kill into a tree to stop lions from stealing it.
3. A very tired boy who falls asleep before I can get him into his bath and doesn't wake when I put his pyjamas on.
Slow worm, peacock butterfly and striations.
1. A slow worm backs into his burrow, his mild resentful gaze holding ours. 2. Peacock butterfly -- Persian rug colours -- rests open in 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. Oli has written a poem describing how Tunbridge Wells makes him veer between wanting to fall in love and wanting to shoot people. Which i...