Friday, March 07, 2025

Puzzles, pursuit and newspaper game.

1. As I'm sitting up in bed waiting to wake up and doing my morning puzzles, someone with a lot of answers joins me.

2. Two blue tits chasing each other round the branches of a bare oak tree in the early spring sunshine.

3. Nick and I make time for fun, and finish our game of Deadline.

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Rainwater, heave and tiramisu.

1. The softness of rainwater -- unthinking I lather my hands with the usual amount of soap, and then find I can't rinse it off. 2. I div...

  • Bee, green beans and movie night.
    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...
  • Midsummer, feeding and cakes.
    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...
  • As needed, forgotten cake and syrup.
    1. I promised myself I wouldn't moan and grumble about it -- but I do. And as if by magic, a very kind friend produces the required blaz...