1. Opening the dishwasher and discovering that it is not full and clean as expected, so I don't need to empty it.
2. The new coffee has some enticingly complicated instructions with it.
3. Someone has been eating the jammy cakes I made, and there is only one left.
1. Our bank has given every customer £100, which is a pleasant thing to find in our accounts.
2. This edit of a sweet romantic novel is flying along -- and it's a Christmas book so the descriptions of cold weather are very welcome on a day when I've shuttered the west side of the house against the determined sun.
3. Three of us squashed on the sofa in the front room -- coolest spot in the house -- listening to the radio.
1. I thought I caught lime blossom last week while sitting out drinking coffee on the Pantiles, but it is early yet, and it was such a subtle scent coming and going on the air currents, so I put it down to a general feeling of happiness. But now I've definitely and unmistakably I've caught the faint fresh smell up on the common.
2. A glass of wine, a game and some talk and the day is rounded off.
3. The scent of jasmine has slipped through the back windows and rests in the dark rooms.
1. It's Palestrina week on Radio 3, and I'm very much showing up for hours and hours and hours of polyphony.
2. Through the trees, a glimpse of the mauve orchid spires among the grass on the other path.
3. I find the wide belt I have been looking for all day. I put it on. It isn't comfortable.
1. Folding and bruising herbs from the garden for snipping into the soup.
2. Cracking the top off a beer bottle -- refreshment to help with cooking supper.
3. The Early Music Show bases its playlist on the diary John Courtney, who lived in Yorkshire in the second half of the 18th century. With a cry of ‘musick is better than cards by far’, he leapt joyfully and with both feet into the local scene, both as a participant and a listener. He sounds like the sort of person whose enthusiasm encourages and cheers the creators, performers and artists around them, and it's a pleasure to see such a one remembered.
1. I've been sneaking off to read Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree. It is very pleasant to disappear for a short time into a skilfully drawn seaside world.
2. Confirmation messages -- your parcel will arrive today; your taxi is on its way; it's outside; is that you trying to log in; we've got your order; your food is being prepared; it's been dispatched; it's at the door. It's a lot, but I value the constant background noise of reassurance; and I like to delete the lot at the end of the day.
3. Was braced for a bad news phone call; but it's only a small change, and nothing we can't deal with.
1. I stop for a moment to watch the wind shaking the grass heads in all their variety. I should, I suppose, try to learn them now I've noticed this array.
2. The fleshy colour and reddish cap of a jay on an oak branch over my head catches my eye. In the undergrowth, another bird is protesting with a call that sounds like knocking pebbles together.
3. Six black dots to the right of the path. Noses and wet shining eyes of two deer looking up from their grazing.