Sunday, August 05, 2012

Dim, chocolate and reading.

1. After breakfast, to lie on the sofa bed, all three of us, in the dim light behind the still drawn curtains.

2. "Alec bought it for you with his pocket money," lies Nick, handing me a bar of chocolate.

3. To snatch a few pages of Dracula here and there during the day. I bought a very cheap second hand copy, so it doesn't matter if I drop it in the washing up.

Escape, tulips and samosa.

1. This morning, I'm piling into a car with friends to escape into the Weald, where we will visit a garden planted with 45,000 tulips. 2...