1. It has been grey and foggy and wet for more than a week. Today the sun comes out during the morning so that all the colours seem brighter on my walk at lunchtime.
2. Diverting water out of muddy puddles by scoring ditches with your bootheel. I like the last puddle in the chain overflowing so the water runs over dry ground.
3. Spotting a cherry tree by the bridleway and thinking that as soon as I come back from Africa I must walk down and see it in blossom.
