Artist Amelia Critchlow has written a 3BT post over at 101 Birds -- we met while I was covering an exhibition here in Tunbridge Wells that includes her work. She's written about that, and the co-incidence surrounding our meeting. 1. I keep her...

1. Days when the Abel and Cole man arrives super early, because he knocks on the door and hands me the boxes with a big smile. 2. On a misty day, walking along Mount Ephraim looking over an unfamiliar town. It's a view that never gets tired. Every...

1. Nick is hovering as I serve up my dinner. Then he swoops to steal a fragment of dumpling. 2. I covet Nick's sandwich -- the piece of bacon, and the red tomato slices layered between flounces of spring green lettuce. The colours are so bright that...

1. Dough bumbles round the breadmaker pan like a stout creature in an exercise ball. 2. The butcher is alarmed and bemused by his slowness. "I just want to put my head down and have a 10-minute kip." I tell him that I think that's a reasonable...

Three Beautiful Things weekly round-up Two posts about first snow: A Journal of Days and Glimpses of Grace; while Louisa meets a lady at the chip shop who must content herself with a snow substitute. Aisha eats a pomegranate unadorned for the first...