1. Once everyone has left the house on the first day of term, I sit down with my Fortean Times for half an hour.
2. I come downstairs to scenes of jubilation: after ten days of false alarms, phone queues and broken promises a courier has come and taken Alec's defective laptop away so it can be replaced.
3. 'Sainsbury's are here, but Bettany and I are on it,' Nick calls up the stairs.
