1. The garden is full of columbines, some doubles that look like frilly underwear, some the colour of a midnight sky, some pure white.
2. To sleep after lunch while my mother looks after Alec.
3. Alec is cross that his ride-on tractor has to stay at Granny's house. I make him laugh by pointing out that the goldfinch on the bird feeder has chest markings that make him look as if he has bubs.
Spider work, salts and bickering.
1. Cobwebs gleam where they catch the low-angled sun -- polygonal nets strung from brambles; gauzy dancefloors in the gorse. 2. Tipping th...
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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...