0. On a day filled with discussion of equal marriage, I found some documentaries and clips about marriage (and cohabiting/attitudes towards sex) from the late 1950s and 1960s – exactly what I need for some research, a real treasure-trove. Thanks BBC archive!

1. The soup is momentarily put on hold while we watch the deer from the kitchen window. She’s in the clearing just on the other side of the elder tree, still and watching something in the woods in the opposite direction from our house. The wet snow falls steadily around her and she shakes it from her fur with a silver spray.

2. We exchange stories with the woman in the woods about our lovely rescue Springers. Just a little bigger than Lily and perfectly mannered, I hope we meet Charlie again.

3. I play a track thinking it’s something else and we’re surprised to hear a warm piano, later joined by just the haunting voice. We forget the original track we were looking for.