Mid-summer seeds ripening for Autumn flight.A buffeting wind all day pulls tufts of leaves from the trees in The Grove and throws them untidily on the grass. It is a disturbing, invisible presence. But thrilling, too. Naughty. It creeps up behind you, puffs in your face. Boo.
There are often surprises on the counter in the health shop in The High Street. Today it is Mayan Rain Forest chewing gum. Spearmint. And Organic. Of course. "I haven't tried it" says the health food lady, whose pale and transparent skin suggests a diet almost exclusively of what she purveys; and whose jaw line suggests that she has masticated nothing more challenging than a chickpea.
