1. To pin my poppy on to my winter coat and step out into the cold. I feel like we've crossed the winter line.
2. My eldest comes to find me with the new and beautiful copy of Dune that he has just bought, all matte covers and clear type on thick, smooth pages. It's a bit of a contrast with my copy, which I threw out because its badly printed yellow wood pulp pages were falling off its broken spine.
3. The crunching of a silver ball among the icing on a fairy cake.
