1. An early (for me, for a Sunday) phone call has me up and hunting for strayed horses in the woods. I track hoof prints in the mud and identify three different types of poo, proving that both foxes and deer have been around recently (as well as the horses). I also spot one of our cats – Tilda I think – on Wood Hill, a fair way from our house and I get a hug from Friendly Black Dog when I met her out on her morning walk. We don’t find the horses (they finally turn up in the afternoon, a mile away) but it’s sunny, and warm for February, and that makes the search enjoyable all the same.
2. The restaurant turns out to be better than we thought – I give the cook free rein on my soup noodles, ending up with a mix of flavours I’d never have picked but love.
2b. Jewels of jelly wobbling.
3. We go to see Circa Tsuica – a circus group from France that combines acrobatics and brass band music. It’s silly, crazy and awe-inspiring – we grin solidly for an hour at their exertions.
3b. We make stupid puns the whole way home. And exchange clumsy, awkward side-on high fives to celebrate the dumbest of them.
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