1. I wake very early, read for a bit and then sleep again, deep and dreamful, before waking very late.
2. The children breakfasted late and don't want to eat with us at 1pm. We have a private lunch, sharing everything between our bowls of rice. Afterwards, keeping our voices low, we eat secret pieces of chocolate.
3. My tea is made -- a good quality blend that promises much, a mass of petals and scented green stuff floating in the diffuser -- and I start to take it to my desk. But I get called away to help with this and then that needs carrying upstairs, but also another thing that I must to go back down and up for, and then the phone rings. The tea waits on the stairs, and its smell draws me back through the house to where I was going in the first place.
