1. The bright colours and jolly patterns of our funderwear as it dries on the airer.

2. A trump threatens to be embarrassingly loud and squeaky while John is on a conference call. The beautiful thing is the relief when it, ahem, passes quietly. ;)

3. Little distracts me from my worries more than a good (real life) logic puzzle. (I wasn’t worrying about trumps then. Well, not exclusively.)