1. I wake up to realise I have no plans for the work day ahead – nothing that needs doing immediately and my old routines have lapsed to the point I don’t feel them calling either – so I just stay in bed and finish my book.

2. Lily’s leg is still creaky so she’s slow on her feet but she’s her usual crazy self when she wriggles around on her back – all of the radge, none of the pain. After a few minutes of dancing and grunting, she grabs her bone and holding it between her paws, gnaws on it while still upside down. “That’s how dogs eat bones in space,” John notes with mock sincerity.

3. I have a lot of love for Staedtler Noris HB pencils – the quality of both the lead and the resulting tone. It’s pleasing to scrawl the perfectly mid-grey tone on the squared paper.