1. We've enjoyed our box of squashes -- large and small, globes, oblates, onions and ribbed, and all the colours between lantern orange and murky green (plus one that is ghostly white) -- and now we're eating them, one by one. Tonight's is small and baked whole.
2. Waiting for a dental appointment and gazing into a terraced garden -- lollipop trees, narrow lawns scattered with golden leaves.
3. The finale of Celebrity Traitors is very, very satisfying.
1. This morning, there has been a soothing conversation with the financial advisor.
2. Some handsome but disappointing apples have been loitering in the fruit bowl. I bake them with butter and cinnamon sugar, and at pudding time they are rapidly moved on to a better place .
3. One of those unexpected evenings when the bed is full of children who want to talk.
1. Of course the radish described as blue is really purple. It's still pretty and crisp, though, and grates into a peppery salad for my wrap.
2. I have sifted through my bridge news sources, and think that I've got nothing good. But when I come to look at my notes, there are a few current, interesting bits, each with a trustworthy source. And that's enough.
3. 'We could always split a KitKat,' says Nick.
1. Some new baby news lifts the morning.
2. For lunch there is ramen with leftover leeks and squash, shreds of pork and shards of deep orange crackling.
3. Where the park's lamp shines through the wind flung trees, light and shadows shimmy on sodden grass and gleaming path.
1. At this salon, with the sinks set up so I'm looking at a view of the woods while the hairdresser shampoos and rinses, I suddenly understand why a friend once suggested as a remedy for feeling flat that I get my hair done when it didn't even need cutting.
2. I'm helping with biology revision, and I'm struck by how much easier it is now to find information in a format that better suits your learning style. And as for being able to look at a film -- or multiple films if you like -- of the experiment that didn't work for you in class...
3. Drizzle and downpour all day; skies clear but for stars by 9pm.
1. My nephew likes cheese, but only the holes, which I carefully snip out with kitchen scissors.
2. I feel a little bit sorry for the computer voice on the bus, because she is compelled to announce the very eerie stop named 'Hangman's Hill'.
3. We've had a long break because of a health set-back -- but now we're back at the Monopoly table, amid a cheerful parade of dancing skeletons, merry ghosts and cosy pumpkin lanterns. It's a relief to Tim on his feet and Rachel kindly and patiently bearing the extra labour.
1. The crack of pumpkin rind as I bring the knife round the lantern lid.
2. Now they've been pointed out to me, everywhere I go, I see the pale pointed caps of mycena mustering under the bracken.
3. Large and low, a hooked moon follows us home on the lefthand side.