1. Playing Pooh Sticks with Madie and Ellie and Doug. We walked down the hill that I am one day going to run up and spent 20 minutes leaning on the bridge over the stream at the bottom enjoying the sound of the water and the sunlight dappling through the foliage.
2. Coming home to find Sainsbury's has sent me a birthday card. It has a picture of some little cakes on the front, which are so thickly iced with in sweetie colours and sprinkled with hundreds and thousands and tiny flowers that they are nearly as good as the real thing; and also a voucher for a free litre of frozen yoghurt.
3. Oli commenting that he likes the sound of a door being unlocked.
As needed, forgotten cake and syrup.
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