1. Things go smoothly: I make my bus, I find the building, and the code for the elevator works first time.
2. A quick stop for a wee changes my perspective on my plans: I no longer feel the need to rush home straight away and instead wander around some shops (buying comic books and boots I’ve been dithering over for weeks), and have some delicious lunch.
2b. I burp delightfully complex flavours all afternoon.
3. I suddenly appear in a gap in the wall which surprises the woman and her beagles. Her dogs bark but are settled with some tickles. Like always when I stroke beagles (and beagle-adjacent) dogs, I’m surprised how bouncy their fur is.
3b. After a day thinking about old pictures, I find some pictures of the woods from 100 years ago and plan my walk to take current day photos en route. The great Needle’s Eye gatehouse is long gone (replaced by a boring metal access gate) but the top of the Cutting and the bridge are very much as they were, just surrounded with more greenery.
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