Saturday, December 26

We begin to return to normal, and meals begin to shrink towards the healthier options.

I put my new iPad Air into action and discover, to my delight, that I can copy everything from the old one to the new one with almost no effort at all. I just leave them lying next to each other and the copying begins. It has a few flaws, but only a very few. The full day’s effort I had expected melts away into nothing more than an occasional check to see how things progress.

At some point I go out into the garden and on the way I stop to photograph this wooden bowl full of glass cones that sits on a table on the terrace. I notice that it will get dark in an hour’s time and assign some tasks that I don’t fancy doing in the dark to tomorrow.