1. An instructive hour is spent researching the work of a top-selling author for an upcoming edit which will be marketed in the same niche. Of course I need to read a couple of the books, and I am quite justified in putting them on expenses.
2. In a back corner of the garden I find that a pot of soft strappy leaves has put out long stems topped with whitish minarets.
3. In the dark, beyond the shutters and the window glass, rain is falling.
