1. It rained nearly all day. It wasn't the violent stormy tipping-it-down rain we've been having. More a gentle drizzle that I imagined must be doing the world good. It is the sort of rain that we love to describe as 'miserable weather' but secretly take pleasure in.
2. Katie and Paul V came round to dinner, which I enjoyed cooking and eating. We had stir fry made with prawns, peppers, baby sweetcorn, snap peas, noodles, onions, spring onions, ginger, lemon and garlic. Afterwards, we sat around gossiping and giggling.
3. Warm golden syrup cake with vanilla ice cream eaten off my grandmother's desert plates.
Novel, coming back and ready for December.
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