Thursday, March 24, 2022

Shadow, lemon cake and Milly-Molly-Mandy.

1. The way Alec walks close behind us in case he needs to hide from someone we know.

2. My mother brings lemon cake that is light as a feather. She says she doesn't know how it turned out like that, though.

3. Bettany brings a Milly-Molly-Mandy book upstairs for me to read to her. It's a new edition, a nice knocky hardback, and the designer, with a good eye for detail, has given it a 1930s feel.
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Watering cans, eating alone and settling down.

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