Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Ready and waiting, comfort and already asleep.

Today there is a celebration over at Day of Happiness -- you can pledge to spread happiness, or nominate a happiness hero.

1. Alec is sitting in his pushchair ready to go. We are not leaving for another hour.

2. To sit warm and sleepy after lunch in a room with a wood fire.

3. We take a dozing boy upstairs and put him to bed. When I've finished settling him I come down and get ready to go out. Nick looks lost: "I don't know what to do with myself this evening." He'd been expecting to spend the time reading stories and building pillow houses.

Over the field, the path divides and perished.

1. After the bridge, the hard path cuts across the middle of a grass field spangled with buttercups. 2. The hard path continues left; or the...