Last weekend Poppet and Baba swept up the front yard while I worked in my little garden. They returned with a large bucket of decaying Camellia flowers. They were just beautiful. Loads of pale pink and rust coloured soft petals. I decided to take photos. Poppet got caught up in my excitement and started to hover. First, he started to hang the peg basket on the handle of the bucket while I took close-ups. When Baba took the basket off him he started to lunge toward the bucket giggling and shouting ‘tip them over, tip them over, tip them over’. I admit it was tempting.

When I finished photographing, I dashed inside to put my camera away. I must have taken 30 seconds. When I returned the bucket was on its side, the petals scattered everywhere and Poppet was still excitedly repeating in a sing-song voice ‘tip them over, tip them over’.