secret confessions
Posted in whimsy on Nov 12th, 2008 8 Comments »
I quite like beer ads.
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thank-you note
Posted in whimsy on Jun 1st, 2008 No Comments »
I wanted small pierced earrings (gold).
You gave me slippers (gray).
My mother said that she would scold
Unless I wrote to say
How much I liked them.
Not much.
- Judith Viorst
tea party
Posted in whimsy on Apr 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Mister Beedle Baddlebug,
Don’t bandle up in your boodlebag
Or numble in your jimblejug,
Now eat your nummy tiffletag
Or I will never invite you
To tea again with me. Shoo!
- Harry Behn
measuring the marigolds
Posted in whimsy, environment, books on Jan 29th, 2008 2 Comments »
On the train this morning, somewhere between Thornleigh and Epping, and just a few pages into The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell, I noticed a sudden flash of green. On closer inspection, the flash of green turned out to be a lovely little inchworm reaching out towards my book bag. Heaven knows where it came […]
draynyw
Posted in whimsy on Jan 7th, 2008 2 Comments »
On the train home this evening I discovered that the CityRail Sydney metro map has at least one station for every letter of the alphabet, except for Q and X. Took me a while to find a J though. And I also noticed that on this particular map someone had very neatly cut out Wynyard. […]