Three Beautiful Things

We've got a game going on Twitter. Tweet your beautiful things in the style of a 3BT title (eg: Long horizon, little clouds and plate of lemons.) and tag it #threebeautifulthings . You can follow me, too if you like: Threebt . 1. This garden on a hillside is so full of sky. Hilary says: 'I just like watching the weather.' 2. At two, everything is marvellous -- including a cat that streaks across the room when you try to stroke it; 'Aeroplane! In the sky! Making a noise!'; running faster than your parents; and 'One, two, three, four, five' apples on the tree. 3. Lorna and I slip round the the back of the house to bounce on the trampoline and talk about being brides. I need to get out of breath, and be reminded that I am not the only woman getting married.

1. They give me CV advice with such joy that I think this is what they've been waiting for all morning. 2. I like to stand on the doorstep as the first raindrops fall from a slate-blue sky. 3. I take a yellow bowl from the cupboard and put yellow plums in it. Then I change my mind and get the purple bowl instead.

1. Scarlet and orange and amber bonnet peppers -- they look like my nasturtiums. 2. At Linda's reading, I liked seeing her partner slipping a second glass of water on to the table behind her. 3. I walk through the door just as the kettle clicks off. I put my mug next to the one already on the counter.

1. He says as we wake up on a work day: "I hate leaving you." 2. She says that her little girl has reached another milestone. "Now she cuddles me." 3. We listen to H E Bates' gentle and affectionate story, The Maker of Coffins on BBC 7.

1. I am kicked out of bed for being wriggly, and decide that what I really want to do in the quiet hours before Nick wakes up is not write blog, diary or story, but finish The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society because love is clearly in the air, but so far, none of the characters have realised. 2. The last piece of bath fizzer drags a tail of tiny bubbles through the foam on the surface of the water. 3. I like to sit on the old long sofa from old flat and talk with Katie until my problems are unravelled.

1. Small boy calls for his mother in the market. By the time I turn round, she's dabbing the tears off his face. 2. I like chatting to one of the neighbours as we peg out our washing. 3. Nick comes back from the tank rally and says he's seen Dame Vera Lynn 'And she's tiny, like a little bird.'

1. She tells her mother not to embarrass her, then asks if she can press the button to open the train door. 2. I like holding my goddaughter's very small hand as we walk to the tube. 3. For a couple of weeks I've been testing the apples on the branches hanging over the wall between the solicitors' car park and the street. Tonight, one falls off in my hand.