1. I find out about how more things work, this time from a friendly delivery driver.

1b. I’m pleasantly surprised by some of the items on the shopping – I’d forgotten that I’d ordered them. I’m almost tempted to leave a greater lag between ordering and delivery just to enhance the Christmas morning-like surprises.

2. Last week I was struggling with something but today it comes together. It’s still bitty, it still needs more smoothing into shape but it feels like a possibility now.

3. Strange meows to announce she’s brought us another present. It’s not a stay-away growl by any means: she’s happy to share her catch.

3b. I leave a hungry Lily in the kitchen while I empty the bins. I return expecting to tell her off for snaffling the cats’ food but instead she’s in the living room, batting around her own (practically empty) food cube. I feed my good girl.