1. It is cold (although less chill than it has been) and cloudy (although less grey than it has been) and a robin sings loudly from the top of a streetlamp while bulbs push insistent leaves out of the earth and a couple of ladybirds sit out.
2. A well risen batter pudding with sausages floating like barrage balloons.
3. Mulled wine in a heavy stone goblet.
