1. We walk to the supermarket together at lunchtime.

2. I have a sealed tube of catnip in my desk drawer, which the cats have been enjoying lately. Strange meows with excitement whenever I lift it out: she doesn’t even need to smell its contents any more.

3. I slice up the avocado without removing the skin, then I replace the stone and seal the fruit back together. I don’t do it with the intention of confusing John but it works anyway.

1. A glorious spring day. At one point, I sit on the chipping path and just enjoy the sun.

1b. There is a black cat on my plot as I approach and later I approach the shelter slowly to not alert the slinky grey boy inside.

1c. It’s hard to see what I’m doing – every time I look up from the pruning, the sun nearly blinds me – but when I eventually step back, I realise I’ve managed to give it a decent shape after all.

2. At first it’s unimpressive – it looks like any bogstandard music visualisation – then we realise what exactly is happening and we’re in awe.

3. The curry – a haleem – is even better than I thought it would be (after a taste of O’s the other week). I want a spoon to eat the sauce like a soup.

3b. That I had a spectacular fall but didn’t ladder my tights or break anything expensive. (I did, it turns out, do a bit of a number on my knee but that is cheap to heal compared to a phone.)

1. Since it’s a bright day, I spend the morning in the garden. I plant out the dogwood at the bottom of the garden and a cheapy shrub in the silver birch bed. The chickens mingle outside while the cats (including next door’s R-kitten) sit patiently inside the run. Up on the patio table, I find the most gorgeous leaf skeleton and in the chicken coop, I find four surprise eggs – the first they’ve laid in months.

2. I bang the mat on the wall: there is a faint hiss as the heavier particles fall onto the wood below but the rest float away silently in the breeze. (This becomes a more satisfying thing to repeat once I realise the direction of said breeze.)

3. The obscured glass breaks the orange streetlights and the blue lights from the neighbours’ garden into cubist angles.

1. We have to go out at lunchtime to buy chicken feed – which means we’re just a minute away from the lovely Italian deli in Saltaire. I enjoy my favourite salami and their bright green olives.

2. A whirlwind of little things leaves me tired and grumpy in the late afternoon. Then a message from an old (but sporadically long-lost) friend cheers me up again.

3. The chunky yarn makes a blanket more squishy than normal. The novelty is fun.

1. We watch a large crow try to find balance on the spindly birch branches.

2. A walk in the woods with our lovely neighbour, K. At one point, we meet two dog walkers and their pack of dogs – all off lead. The dogs surround us in a group and I tickle each one. I tell K and the dog walkers that I’m in heaven.

2b. John’s laugh when I tell him K’s son F’s favourite joke of the moment (which involves a big green pool noodle).

3. The last message in my chat conversation with my friend S is about Lily dying. He sends me a picture of a tiny calico kitten – just because he says it makes him sad seeing that as our last message. A very sweet kitten and a very sweet gesture.