Nasim Marie Jafry's Blog, page 25

Jewels

I know it was warmer this time last year as I remember hiding mini-Easter eggs - like giant jewels - under rocks for my nephews (my mother lives right on the coast) and one rolled deep into a cavernous gap and we couldn't retrieve it. Today, I read in my diary - which I keep haphazardly, I can't read my writing anyway when I go back - that I'd read 'Brokeback Mountain' last Easter. Then I remembered I'd read the short story in my mother's garden, it was warm and sunny.
This Easter holiday, we...

High

There are magpies nesting in the next garden, so skrekky and gallus - and so high up! I know magpies nest high, it's in my book. The sky is blue today - no sleet - and I can see their tails dipping between the branches, flashes of blue and black and white.

Seems

It truly seems like a hallucination - daffodils and tulips and bluebells behind the sleet. I'm not sure whether I'm hallucinating the flowers, or the sleet. I fear for the tulips, they are almost horizontal.

'Birth of a book'

Wonderful: old-fashioned book printing, almost makes you want to throw away your Kindle!