1. The temperature has dropped after a few days of heat.
2. An enormous plateful of lamb chops almost hidden by a garden of salad.
3. Novels with lots of distracting footnotes. I'm reading Mr Norrell and Jonathan Strange. The narrator (so far it's not clear who they are) is rather scholarly and every so often will stop to enlarge on something mentioned in passing. The book is set in an unfamiliar Victorian England where magicians used to have fairy servants but now no longer do magic, so there's a fair bit to explain.
