1. I scored some bargain mochaware salt and pepper pots on eBay – I’m going to use them as essential oil diffusers. They arrive today and not only are the mochaware “trees” interesting, the whole pots are delightful – a teardrop shape that begs to be held, the marbling on the slip and the smoothness of the glaze.
2. Chatting with our neighbours on the way back from the dog walk. R from next door shows us pictures of the house they’re going to buy and K says they’ll probably be moving in a year or so too. We’ll probably follow not afterwards, possibly looking at the same area as them, and we joke about how funny it would be if we all ended up neighbours again. I really wouldn’t mind: we couldn’t really wish for better ones.
3. A misheard word – ‘shed’ instead of ‘shared’ – sparks five minutes of jokes and laughter.
3b. I gloat a touch too much but everyone agrees it was a stellar comeback: I have lost every single round up til then – barely even spotting the paths let alone being the first to do so – and both J & S are well on their way to winning, then suddenly I win five out of the six last rounds to steal victory.
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