1. At coffee time we go over what Nick is making for supper, and I pick the herbs from the garden and locate the spices he needs.
2. Slipping the skin off a cooked beetroot.
3. Beside me, Bettany is snipping something from a magazine.
1. I'm with the glossy white-haired ladies in hot pink and emerald green and china blue linen waiting for the department store to open i...