1. For the life of me, I can’t work out why the garden smells of Tunes* then I finally realise: I was just grappling with a chicken in a blackcurrant bush.
1b. The woods are breathing.
1c. A belly laugh when the chickens start chasing the twigs alongside the cats.
2. To learn a new technique that is radically different to what has come before.
3. The chocolate cracking in the mousse reminds me of frozen chocolate sauce on ice cream – that rare treat from childhood. Sometimes my mum would make a homemade version and we would keep it in an old, large coffee jar in the fridge.
* the cold lozenge; I don’t have synesthesia