1. Carla’s prerps and chirps, her coos and mews. She chatters away, sleepily content.

2. Looking through historical photos for research, I find a picture of my old house in Liverpool dating from 1970 (I lived there 1999-2000). I am surprised both by finding the picture in a random city-wide archive and by how little it changed, from the outside at least, in the intervening 30 years.

3. To see confidence blooming in different people through performance and basic questions.

3b. Having a calm, reasonably focused group for once.