1. To pick up a few ginkgo leaves -- bright yellow, ridged like fingertips.
2. Small battenberg cakes for tea: pink and yellow and very, very sweet.
3. Through the blind slats, the duck egg blue fades out of the sky.
1. I slap the full water butt to enjoy the dull thump. 2. My herbs have doubled in size in the rain, which seems to have nourished them in a...