Traditionally, rosettes do have a colour and are phenomenal rather than noumenal decorations.

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Seven out of the nine cars that had passed my house that day were red (your favourite colour) and the other two were blue (the colour of your eyes). Earlier in the week I was eating a bowlful of Alphabet Soup and I swear the letters I dragged out that made anagrams of your name tasted sweeter.

I don't know a thing, I wanted to say. I am not very clever but I am affectionate about knowledge. Let's start there.

As I made my way along the shoreline I tripped over the remnants of a picnic left among the dunes. There was a newspaper, some bunched tinfoil, a blue plastic bag and an abandoned packet of digestives. I had stopped and tidied the mess together, and noticed that the newspaper's crossword was completed with a thick red marker pen; the clues had been

The spider responds to my inroads upon its personal space by making its life all about the word akimbo, attempting to spell it out with his anatomy. He seems proud in his great bulk.

By now the other man with the stout boots had clocked the urn-holding and as the dog-owner held the woman, stout-boots said something in a low voice that was calculated to be calming. I did not quite hear the beginning of his sentence because the wind changed and a gull gave a loud cry, but watching all three faces involved I knew that he should pr

Purely to pass the time I finished the red wine that we had opened and then because it felt a pity to let go of the glass at this point I filled it with some Calvados that had been sitting in the back of the cupboard since Christmas.

if a book gets wet we should freeze it and that a domestic fridge will be fine for this if in a pinch: "If possible freeze the book spine down, and supported so it won't lean or fall over."