2. To have a good excuse for buying lots of sweets (I need boiled sweets to suppress my cough, and Bettany has a birthday coming up).
3. To get round the garden I must push through huge, drooping daisies.
3.
1. A nice chatty gossip with the hygienist who is, it turns out, a mum from the children's primary school. I see the dentist straight a...