1. The bus arrives just after I reach the stop and it accepts my day ticket too.

1b. Pizza Pieces. I realise I’ve been going there, for its excellent pizza slices, for longer than the lad that served me has probably been alive. It’s so good.

1c. I find exactly what I’m looking for and at a fifth of the online price.

2. Lily-dog wriggles and rolls. She ends up still, on her back, paws in the air. She looks between us as we laugh.

3. I need to make something fairly easy for dinner and suddenly remember an old favourite.