Well, it's Easter Day--it's Easter Day. Percy's house is full of the most beautiful smells--hot cross buns, doubtless the result of Heli's hard work, two chickens, to feed all of the housemates and the handful of guests who are present; as well as fresh, cold water to drink and almost certainly the fruits of Cimorene's dessertful labour. There is ( Read more... )

Percy has gone out ostensibly to pick squashes, but after a few moments of kneeling in the soft earth he slips his hands together and folds them, closes his eyes, and starts praying. His red ruffly hair is all mixed up and falling over his eyes a bit, and his leg is so stiff and painful it's beyond all saying, and like Jacob after his fight with ( Read more... )

( look! it's pictures of our garden. )

I'm really glad I didn't get the greenhouse finished after all. I think maybe that was supposed to happen. Like how I found the house after Heli and Galahad died, where we all lived together. I think it's like that ( Read more... )