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.
Cheese holes, eerie and back at the table.
1. My nephew likes cheese, but only the holes, which I carefully snip out with kitchen scissors. 2. I feel a little bit sorry for the comput...
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1. Stirring the brewing coffee to break the floating crust and bring up the crema. 2. We have donuts to give the children at teatime. 3. Th...
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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...