Blooming

It’s amazing what Mother Nature will do when you take her out of a box and perhaps even go so far as to give her a glass of water. Though admittedly it did take us a couple of days to notice.

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The great escape

Last Christmas the English department at Mum’s school gave her a red amaryllis, which she brought home. There was no suitable setting for it in her library and one of her assistants tasked Dad with taking care of it. Mum’s not the one to whom you should entrust your pot plants while you go on [...]

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Bag and brushes

As part of my ongoing “upgrade” of makeup and whatnot, I wanted a new cosmetics bag. My bits and pieces were housed in a little wooden crate and a couple of little pencil cases I bought in Ecuador. It was all fairly neat, but the moment I took anything out of the crate everything remained [...]

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