1. I stand on the balcony to make my phone call; Strange is curled up on the patio chair below. Her little pink mouth opens and closes in meows of “what’s happening up there?”. By the time my call has finished, she’s relocated to the chair on the balcony instead.

2. I like living in a world where you can get both a potters wheel and your dinner delivered to your door. (The two things happened in quick succession this evening.)

2b. It’s a lazy dinner but just what I want.

3. She wheezes in her excitement at seeing her dad again – he had, after all, abandoned her for HOURS.