1. Tilda enjoys a hug then heads to the window sill to watch birds. At one point, she ducks down as if she is frightened but when I look out of the window, I see a bird on the gutter just a foot or so away – it was not fear but excitement.

1b. We hug each other with Kaufman in between.

2. I’ve been procrastinating – worried about I’ve picked the wrong colour combination or that the textures will clash, and that it’ll be a waste of a nice hard-to-replace yarn on what I expect to be a “throwaway” practise project. But it warps up well and when I start weaving the contrasting colour, I see they work well together – the warp making the weft more sophisticated, the weft adding shine and variation to the warp. And I come up with a project for the final strip of cloth too.

3. Again, the moon is slight and Venus is bright: this time they’re hanging in a beautifully rich blue sky over Bradford.

3b. The outside is crunchy, the inside perfectly smooth. The smokiness of the chorizo works well with both.