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.

Pears, jay bird and guacamole.

1. I took a kilo of disappointing pears out of the fruit bowl and baked them with ginger and dots of butter. Now they are definitely not dis...