1. The typeface Garamond - I like it because it is gently old fashioned-looking, but very spacey, so its pages are light and airy.
2. Automatic page numbering. Anyone who has ever worked on a system that for some reason or other doesn't do page numbers by itself will know what a pain it is -- one little change means forty little changes.
3. Magnetic ruler guides. In publishing software, they help you to line up text boxes by catching hold of them when you move them about. They are usually green, and my screen is always criss-crossed with them because on paper text at different heights drives me mad, but on screen I just don't spot it.
Haircut, revision and changing sky.
1. At this salon, with the sinks set up so I'm looking at a view of the woods while the hairdresser shampoos and rinses, I suddenly unde...
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1. Stirring the brewing coffee to break the floating crust and bring up the crema. 2. We have donuts to give the children at teatime. 3. Th...
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1. We are sheltered under the garden centre's great barn roof. There is a rush of sound and air as the rain comes down. 2. A mushroom, c...
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1. Technical difficulties. I let go of having working earbuds for this walk. Then I have one last try, and they switch on. 2. Acorns crunchi...