1. I try some new nail varnishes – one nail in each colour. The dark purple is nothing of note (I already have one that comes out a similar shade) but the flat grey-aubergine is very pleasant indeed. It contrasts strongly with the third: a cheerful turquoise that is sublimely summery. The different colours remind me of using multi-coloured nail varnish when I was a teenager. I very rarely paint my finger nails at all – I abuse my hands too much, these will just be for use on my toes – but these tests catch my eye all day.
2. I take a couple of bowls of fruit and veg scraps down to the chickens. As I throw in the outer lettuce leaves, the mange tout & courgette ends, and the strawberry tops, I tell the chickens that everything is local and organically produced (since it’s all from the allotment). It’s nice that nothing goes to waste.
3. Someone turned up the contrast at my allotment after the recent rainy weather. All the greens are more vivid, the strawberries shockingly red, and the soil a healthy almost-black (compared to its usual grey top coat).
3b. The weight of the bag of produce that I carry home.
4. I realise that my feet are cold at the exact moment that a cat (Strange) decides she wants to sit on them and warm them up for me.
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