1. I spend far too long fiddling with my plan for the allotments but it’s very enjoyable. I plan a row of permanent perennial herbs, groups of beds for proper crop rotation and wild flowers at the edges, to help with pollination. I hope I can pull it off in reality as well as on a computer screen.

2. I listen to an old Thinking Allowed podcast while hanging out and sorting laundry. The idea of pain as a cultural phenomenon is fascinating and my historian crush on Joanna Bourke grows stronger. She looks at such a wide range of interesting stuff – I want to be her when I grow up.

3. A row of neat whipped chain stitches in a clean mid green.