1. It’s ages since we had pain au chocolat for breakfast. We bake them until the pastry is light and crisp.
2. A surprisingly sunny day. I hang the winter duvet on the line for a few hours and when we gather it in again, it smells like fresh air.
3. It’s only afterwards – when John gets called away for the whole evening, after being out all afternoon too – that I realise how glad I am that we got a walk together in the middle. We walk through the horses’ field – it’s unusually dry – and John notes that the sky above the line of beech trees is so uniformly blue that it looks like a special effects screen. Later, we walk along the side of the beck and talk about how the path has changed in the six years we’ve lived here. (On Friday, it was six years since we bought the house, though we only started walking in the woods regularly once we got Lily the following March.)
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