Friday, May 18, 2012

Pear, alium and back here.

1. Anthony takes a piece of pear from me, and puts it in Alec's mouth.

2. To catch a purple alium in someone else's front garden just as it is bursting out of bud.

3. When I go to pick Alec up, there are no staff and no babies in his usual room. This is alarming -- but then a cheery voice calls: "We're out here, eating up some leftover cake." Alec leads her back into the room and presses on me a fat handful of crumbs. Nyummy.

Winter is passing, toad in the hole and mulled wine.

1. It is cold (although less chill than it has been) and cloudy (although less grey than it has been) and a robin sings loudly from the top ...