1. We share our favourite cheese jokes. Each one makes John bellow with laughter.

– What do you call a cheese that’s not yours? Nacho cheese
– What cheese is best for people who talk to themselves? Halloumi
– What cheese is best for hiding a horse? Mascarpone
– What cheese do you use to entice a grizzly? Camembert
– How do you defuse a cheese bomb? Caerphilly
– What’s left after an explosion at Jamaican cheese factory? De Brie

2. I repot some houseplants: they fit so much better into their new homes and using one of my handmade pots is a special treat – the succulent fits it perfectly and it makes the pot look better, more real, too.

2b. The weeds, which have been bothering me for the last fortnight, come up quickly.

2c. To finally use my new whirly-gig airer (a year after I bought it).

2d. I can’t find one of the chickens – I look up and down the garden, and in the coop in case she’s laying, but she is nowhere to be found. Finally, I walk into the woods and there, amongst the nettles and brambles, stands a shock of orange. She gives me a bemused look: why had I been calling her? She’d been stood there all along.

3. A glass of squash at lunch time. Boy, I needed that.