1. To get time to sort though the bags of clothes and put together outfits for Bettany. Dressing her will be fun again now that she has the right gear for the weather and for crawling and climbing.
1. Alec's shout of "Granny!"
2. We have time to kill so we wander round while Bettany sleeps in the pushchair. The Mother talks about the wild flowers and grasses that have made themselves at home in pavement cracks and neglected gardens and where walls meet the ground.
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1. Wildflowers -- they don't look local, so I think they were deliberately planted -- are blooming on the bank left behind by the constr...
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1. I catch that baby's eye, right across town, watching me through his mum's screen. 2. Alec discovers Max Raabe and the... -
1. The fog has closed our world off to one street. 2. Finding that the dishwasher didn't go off last night, so there is no need to empty...