1. A tidied desk, a swept floor and spider plants relieved of their brown leaves: the office looks so much better.

2. Feeding the cat treats through the cat flap.

2b. Lily and Strange stretch out together on the patio in the sun.

3. Some colours:

i) A touch of green eyeliner: it makes my eyes look bluer.
ii) The sweet-spicy sauce is a rich vermilion.
iii) Blood red embossed … wallpaper? I don’t know what it is but it makes me want to touch it. (So I do.)
iv) An indigo stripe on a repurposed Japanese tea cup.

4. We finish our dinner a little early so stroll around the city – it’s after 7 but the shops are still open and everyone is in good cheer, enjoying the light evening.

4b. We’re so close to the front and the lectern is so big that it almost swallows David Sedaris. At times, much of the time actually, I can only see his head. He looks like a wooden barrel-chested robot.