1. At coffee time we go over what Nick is making for supper, and I pick the herbs from the garden and locate the spices he needs.
2. Slipping the skin off a cooked beetroot.
3. Beside me, Bettany is snipping something from a magazine.
1. The coffee this morning is very tasty. There is no particular reason that we can discern. Perhaps we were just ready for it, and our bisc...