1. In the small hours, when I can't get back to sleep, there's a friendly, familiar Terry Pratchett book waiting on my phone.
2. We stray into a bookshop and when we come out blinking in the sunlight, the brick pavements are puddled, which suggests we have missed a brief downpour.
3. The scent of cedar lingering on my skin from the unscheduled bath I took this morning.
1. The shower passes and the sunset applies dabs and touches of gold to the west-facing windows on Broadwater Down.
2. Talking and taking long draughts from our pints of London Pride leaves as refreshed as the rain-washed town outside.
3. The last orders bell at 9.30 says that's enough drinking and talking -- time to go home to bed.
1. This morning, the temperature has dropped and cooler air ventilates the start of my working week.
2. We see the downpour hit Scotland 400 miles away in a family WhatsApp group; and then it reaches us.
3. I have set aside four hours for this task; but I come in at just over three.
1. I have to wake him early today. Our fingertips touch.
2. We go out into the sunny afternoon in search of fun and find live music in the courtyard outside The Sussex Arms. We have a pint, then phone home to delegate our responsibilities, and get another half each, and a bag of crisps.
3. An older lady in a white dress dances like she has no regrets.
1. I find a stick with the right sort of fork arrangement for pulling down elderberry branches.
2. There are babies everywhere, being held and rocked and jigged in time with the music, or sitting splayed on the grass with picnic food in their fists or sleeping in their pushchairs in the shade.
3. The naan is the kind packed with a layer of bright yellow coconut.
1. An enormous fat bumble bee at work. She is so bulky that she can knock dead blossoms out of the way as she gets right in to the new jasmine flowers.
2. Green beans squeaking in my teeth.
3. We watch The Goonies. It's fun to see it through adult eyes; and it's fun to see my daughter suddenly understanding gags and references that she's seen in other media.
1. Within fifteen minutes of messaging, we have a GP appointment; and less than an hour after that, we're in front of a medic.
2. A garden right by the pavement crammed with bright garden centre flowers. When it comes to end of summer colour, going shopping is sometimes a good solution.