1. A sudden rainstorm vindicates my laziness – if I’d got up and put the washing out, it would have ended up wetter than it started. Hurrah for inclement weather!

2. I lose Lily in the woods – or rather she loses me because the path takes me behind some trees while she’s busy sniffing something. I rush back up the path (one I don’t recall ever seeing from that direction) and to the millstone steps, aware that she could easily have gone in three different directions – but then I see her, standing a little way down the top path, looking out over the hillside trying to locate the sound of my voice. We’re apart for perhaps a whole minute but are both very happy to reconnect again.

3. The variety of textures, shapes and colours in the pan.