1. Tilda watches “Cat TV” (the view through the cat flap) and when Strange enters the frame, climbing the steps to the kitchen, Tilda ducks to the side. A head pushes through the flap and get swiped with a playful paw.

2. After some faffing when I first arrive at pottery, I finally settle and do good work. It isn’t at all as I’d planned but it is nice to be building fun things again – and my carving goes surprisingly well.

2b. G liberates some little cakes from the kitchen and brings them in for us. We have dirty, clay-coated hands so she feeds them to us. We’re giggling so much we can hardly chew.

3. Three nice – good quality – tops from a charity shop. And my eBay jeans fit perfectly too.

4. To not know what will happen – and to be amused by hand gestures, barbs and all sorts of contrasts along the way.