Friday, February 17, 2012

Tea, first things first and chipping.

1. The production editor says: "Tea, lass?"

2. Instead of rushing out to collect Alec, I go home first to tidy up the lunch things, which I left scattered around the kitchen in my hurry to get out of the house and off to work, and to draw the curtains and put his night things on the towel warmer. When we come home, the house feels warm and ready.

3. We chip away some more at our backlog of Downton Abbey.

Salt, appointment and looking out.

1. A man from a white van is trundling and scraping a red plastic grit spreader around the car park, which has been an ice rink these last f...