1. We've had fun and a good rest in Margate, but now it's time to leave, we're glad to turn our faces towards home.
2. Catching glimpses of Canterbury Cathedral, and the Wye chalk crown as the train cuts through the Kent countryside.
3. Alec and I start out playing Baldur's Gate. We spend most of the session creating our characters and tweaking their appearances; and then quite a bit more of it going 'Wow' at the cutscenes in which a creepy biomechanical airship harasses a Bologna-a-like city.
1. The startling sight on this hot hot day of women in bikinis and full make-up including false eyelashes and thick black brows.
2. Kokeshi dolls in miniature straw capes gaze through the dusty window of a junk shop. I would like to bust some of them out, but the shop is closed in Tuesdays.
3. We have had a quiet day and are starting to look and feel rested.
1. We are hurrying with our cases over the bridge. We end up behind a man in railway uniform carrying a pushchair for a stressed mother who also got caught by the platform change. 'Don't worry,' he tells us. 'The train can't leave without me.'
2. We step carefully along a chalk tunnel, going steadily downwards, grazing our heads on the ceiling before stumbling into a chamber 40 foot high -- Margate Caves is easily worth the fiver it costs to get in.
3. In our bedroom, which faces away from the glaring afternoon sun, there's a fan gently whirring.
1. In the night someone has been eating cake, going by the crumbs on the chopping board.
2. I manage today's waiting with a Terry Pratchett book from the library loaded on to my phone.
3. When I get home, a long cool drink.
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 rather covet the black portfolio in soft faux leather she has bought for herself -- but it's very much her style, not mine.
3. The way dried mushrooms expand in a bowl of water between lunchtime and dinnertime.
1. I happen to be gazing out of the window on a screen break when a woman arrives back at her car just as the warden is lifting his camera to give her parking ticket.
2. I look up astonished at the curls she has put in my hair.
3. While Nick washes up, I'm at the kitchen table slicing and stoning plums for a traybake we are making later.
1. I'm having a busy few days as I work towards some deadlines, but I know it won't be forever, and I've got lots to look forward to at the back end of the week.
2. I bite into a mauve-coloured mochi, and I suppose I expected a purple filling -- but it's bright yellow, to represent a passion fruit.
3. It is still raining steadily, but I can see the sunset reflecting off the dormer windows on the big houses on Broadwater Down, so I know clear skies are coming.