Friday, January 29, 2010
- Fantails chase flying insects over the treetops.
- Whanau over for a barbecue and to admire the unpacked house. Charlotte and baby Lucy arrive first with cherry tomato plants C has propagated herself: I'll plant them tomorrow, when I pot up the kowhai. Ben appears from the north on his bike, having cycled to us from the Aro Valley via Makara, and then Jack's mum Pam arrives and the granddaughters spend the evening vying for her attention. Becca plies her baby cousin with toys, and insists on giving her a Hairy McLary cloth book to take home.
- I go down into the garden and stand on the deck overlooking the bush, listening to the stream I can't see through the dense foliage. Above me, the sun is dipping behind the pohutakawa at the top of the ridge, its rays making the deep red flowers glow pale scarlet.
- I pop my head around the bedroom door to ask Jack something while he's reading Maggie her bedtime story. Mama, she says, go 'way! I reading a book!
- In the dusk, the colours of the roses show more brightly, phosphorescent almost. I'd thought they were past their best, but closer examination shows there are bushes still in bud and every day a new colour emerges: tonight, a rich dark apricot.
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