1. Just before we all get up, I shuffle down to spoon Lily and tell John to snuggle down to spoon me. We cuddle for a moment before Lily moves – I joke that she doesn’t want to be the little spoon but rather the big one, and we laugh when she moves to do exactly that.
2. Time gets away from us and when we get back in from the dog walk, we have just 45 minutes to get ready, eat, visit the supermarket, drop Lily off at her Granny & Pop-Pops’ house on the other side of Bradford then into the city centre. We send our friends panicked messages – we don’t mind being late for the cinema but don’t like messing it up for other people. We make it with a couple of minutes to spare (and as it turns out, our friends are ten minutes late).
2b. The camera hangs on a single face throughout each interaction, often (but not always) showing the other party in a mirror or elsewhere in the shot. It’s beautiful to watch, for example, her face slowly change from rage to regret, to horror, then embarrassment without her saying a thing.
3. Lily lies on her back between us, snoring with her mouth hanging open. John’s mum and dad are tickled by her ridiculousness.
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