1. To pick up a few ginkgo leaves -- bright yellow, ridged like fingertips.
2. Small battenberg cakes for tea: pink and yellow and very, very sweet.
3. Through the blind slats, the duck egg blue fades out of the sky.
1. Waking up in a huge snow-crisp hotel bed, rather keyed up, but ready for a day in the company of other editors. 2. I take a moment to sit...