1. Coffee and crisp croissants for breakfast -- and someone else to do the Weetabix spooning.
2. I love to take a steamy shower when I have bunged up nose.
3. The Great British Bake-Off is oddly compelling -- it provides good baking tips and the contestants' fortunes can change in a moment under Mary Berry's steely blue gaze. It's undemanding viewing, though -- the bakers want to do well, of course, but they haven't built their entire lives around it. Even the losers go away with a bit of a spring in their step -- they're glad to have got this far.
