Apricot jam from a torn page
A recipe card with half its words missing, and how I worked out the rest from taste.
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Tomatoes from a walled garden
The garden my family kept for four generations, and the rows I still remember by name.
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A short letter every Saturday: one object from the drawer, one family memory and one small thing to try writing.
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The house we are mending
A stone house, half repaired, and a photograph of it from before anyone was born.