1. In a low voice he reels off the names of the muscles where I have been hoarding all this tension.
2. He comes home with posies of flowers -- late cosmos; hydrangea drifting between pink and green; midnight purple salvia -- to take to school for his photography class.
3. We've been listening to Hugh Bonneville reading Sherlock Holmes on Radio 4, and it's odd to think that in Conan Doyle's world, you can ride on the London Underground to visit an opium den and then get a horse drawn cab back; that a submarine represents a weapon to end all wars; and if you want to tell someone something quickly over a distance, you have a choice of telegram, postcard or messenger urchin.