1. I catch up with some correspondence and get a flurry of replies; and also some original messages, including one from Anna enquiring about our plans for planting up bulbs of paperwhite narcissus. It feels like I gave the comms channel a poke and unclogged it somewhere upstream.
2. We have the last of the wine with our supper -- one glass each, Sauvignon blanc, very cold.
3. She brings me a few nanotape creatures she has made -- sticky bubble beasts.
1. He slides into his pocket a notebook and pencil.
2. We unwrap a new French cheese. It proves to be exactly ripe and tastes like it might be triple cream.
3. While are settling down for the evening, a very large and spindly spider strolls over the bed. We catch him and put him safe among the books, hoping he will stay around and do his duty against the moths that occasionally try to move in.
1. 'Pizzas are here!'
2. We are both holding our breath at this episode, and find ourselves holding each other against the tension of knowing what the protagonists don't.
3. One of the children has sketched a heart in the bacon fat left in the frying pan.
1. My invoices fly out and the month's money comes flying in. But like a weary air traffic controller, I divert quite a lot of it out again into the joint account.
2. Plaiting extensions into her hair for her Wednesday Addams costume.
3. Aunty Katie appears at the door for trick or treat and soon we're drinking vodka with the blood-coloured Dracola we bought for the children's Halloween supper.
1. Bright waxcap mushrooms -- crimson, orange and yellow -- in the veg box today.
2. Beech leaves the colour of rust flakes cover the mud.
3. I'm on my own for coffee, so I have a very large mugful.
1. The post includes the new Fortean Times, with a Lord Lucan round-up. It does seem awful that the story is about a badly-raised man of loose moral fibre who made dreadful choices and not the poor nanny who got murdered -- her name was Sandra Rivett.
2. Nick finally buys a new airer as the old one broke beyond repair. It's an updated model of the old one, and it has a lot new features (such as non-slip bars and extending hanger hooks) that he is very excited about.
3. Rachel puts on some spooky music to set the tone for our Ghostbusters Monopoly, and it makes me remember that I have my own Halloween playlist.
1. We pass a man and his toddler, a tiny chap with white curls wearing a dark blue waterproof suit. We smile at each other and he holds up his hand for a high-five.
2. The path is a straight tunnel of autumn trees, and we almost feel like we can see all the way to our destination.
3. We stop to watch a grey and yellow bird with a long tail where clear water has collected on clots of orange leaves to the side of the path. It plays, dipping its head and shaking its tail and wings to make water drops fly. We take photos so we can show Grampy for an ID later on.