A scene I reference way too much, treat time for them, treat time for me
1. The rain pools on the freshly painted metal work, like the melted liquid metal in Terminator 2. 2. They like it when we visit with treats. They love the borage leaves almost as much as the corn. When they’ve finished, the black-flecked chicken always checks very carefully that I’m not hiding more about my [...]
3BT – halo, trunk, indulgence
1. The branches practically invisible, the green buds form a lime halo around the trunk. 2. We sit down on a fallen trunk for a kiss. The sunlight dapples the world around us. 3. We nibble the rich dark biscuits in bed before turning to our books.
3BT – Punguins, returned, perfect timing
1. We have Penguin biscuits with our tea and I deadpan the joke on the back to John. As usual, he tries to solve the puzzle with logic: “it’s always a pun to do with it being black and white… living in the Antarctic… not being able to fly… about its flippers or beak…” On [...]
3BT – pate, cats, plunk-plink!, delights
1. The toast is evenly brown and perfectly crisp. The pate is strongly flavoured but delicious, and stirs in me the desire to make my own. I add it onto my “things to make” list. 2. Throughout the day, all the cats visit me at my desk. They sit on my knee between my body [...]
3BT – grit swish, concordance, over-excited about juice
1. The regular swish as the men brush grit. 2. I randomly stumble upon Clare’s “Three Beautiful Biscuits” and think, not for the first time, that Clare and I might actually be the same person. 3. I squee loudly when I find the forgotten-about spare bottle of orange squash. Just what I wanted.
