1. Nick comes home and says he's taking next Monday off.2. We have dinner at the place where we will be getting married: it's a chance to try the food and choose the wine.
3. I come to the end of Tom Bullough's beautiful book The Claude Glass
. It's the acutely observed story of boys growing up in rural Wales. Andrew, the monsterously neglected son of a native farmer lives among the sheepdogs, and views the world through an optical toy he discovers in the ruined farmhouse. Through the intervention of a neighbouring family of sheepfarming hippies, he discovers a world outside the mud and darkness and stink of his own home.
