1. Alec has claimed with every step that he hates everything on offer in any coffee shop, but he is quite pleased, in the end, with his breakfast of milkshake and cake.
2. The alarm to remind me to put the potatoes in the oven sounds when we are halfway home. Alec says it's lucky it didn't go off in the coffee shop as that would have been cringe.
3. Banging skewers into baked potatoes -- the clink on the worksurface, and the dribble of potato juice.
