Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Loot, seeds and skid.

1. Bettany brings home her end-of-term loot -- an inflatable globe and a certificate as a prize for reading lots, and glorious pink and green dream catcher.

2. The rattle of columbine seeds falling into an envelope.

3. A middle-aged man on a folding bike does a joyful skid-turn in the empty road.

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Having a go, firmament and what might happen.

1. We go to a secondary school open evening, and Bettany dissects a kidney, implodes a drink can, builds a circuit, does some match-stick pu...

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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...
  • Sown, coffee and Moana.
    1. Wildflowers -- they don't look local, so I think they were deliberately planted -- are blooming on the bank left behind by the constr...
  • Fog, no chore and help.
    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...