Basil

What is it about basil?

Where is the lush green of the supermarket basil?

I feel your basil pain.

I grew this from seed – basil is one of the best things in the world:

Sad anaemic basil. Why aren’t you lush green?

This is a rhetorical question; I don’t want no smartass telling me no direct sunshine and no draughts.

I had three children in diapers: twins and a two-year-old. Here are some of the things I’ve learned:

In the run-up to the birth, diaper-changing took up a huge volume of my consciousness. After the birth, almost none, it became a minor inconvenience.

The diaper contents hardly smelt at all while I was breastfeeding.