0. To have the pleasure of being kept awake by a twit-twooing owl.

1. One of our lovely neighbours puts out our forgotten recycling bins.

2. The bed is a warm brown, rather than the hard cracked weedy grey it was earlier. One hundred onion sets neatly set out in five rows of twenty.

2b. A courgette ready to take home – and more that should make it before the frosts.

2c. The sun on the distant hills.

3. It’s on the verge of being too spicy – but not quite. (Well, not for me anyway.)