1. To pick up a few ginkgo leaves -- bright yellow, ridged like fingertips.
2. Small battenberg cakes for tea: pink and yellow and very, very sweet.
3. Through the blind slats, the duck egg blue fades out of the sky.
1. There are drifts of mauve heather blossom here and there on the common where the trees have been cleared to open up heathland. 2. I rathe...