I was in the kitchen and went to grab an avocado from the fruit basket only to encountered a bumble bee (these things happen when your kitchen is outside). Then a few minutes later I went up to the road to cut a sprig of rosemary and saw honeybees in amongst its purple flowers. "What's …
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In My Kitchen (August and) September 2013
Want to see what's going on in everyone's kitchens? Stop over at Fig Jam and Lime Cordial to see Celia's kitchen and find links to many more.One of the things that I love about reading people's In My Kitchen posts is that so much of people's lives are reflected in what is going on in …
In My Kitchen February 2013
Celia at Fig Jam and Lime Cordial hosts the In My Kitchen series, and it's a lot of fun to read, so head over there and check it out! This month I have been blogging in slow motion because I haven't got the Internet at my new apartment, strictly speaking. So this month's IMK has …
A tree of my own
This year I have my own tree for the very first time. In the past, I've spent Christmas under other people's trees -- my parents' or my cousin Elaine's, or I've been abroad on my own somewhere and improvised. I feel a bit ambivalent about having bought a fake tree, but there it is. I …
Impermanent address
I've been listening almost obsessively to the King Creosote and Jon Hopkins album, Diamond Mine. It is so gorgeous that after playing it for the first time from start to finish, I was so bereft at having to stop hearing it that I just went right back to the beginning. It's very much about King …
Garden Correspondent 