1. It takes a lot of washing to get your whiskers clean after having some leftover kipper oil but Carla has a sunny spot to do it in so she doesn’t seem to mind at all.

2. I thought we wouldn’t have any for a while after yesterday shock but there are three perfect eggs in the nest box when I go down in the morning.

3. Traffic through Saltaire:
a) the school girl in green with the forethought to put her sunglasses in her blazer pocket on a drab morning to be ready for the sun ahead.
b) the man with the red star outline around his elbow: first we overtake him then on the other end of the high street, we overtake him.
c) a picture in a shop window makes me go through my usual thought process: “ooh, I’d like to buy that … No, I’d like to make my own instead.”

4. The people that have learnt their lines.