Walking and talking and encountering the unexpected.
Listening to Dorothy Sayers and weighing up academic life.
A cool change, gentle rain and dancing carrots.
Lots of writing, lunch on a bench in the mizzle, and an unexpected find in the book cabinet.
Jabs, eyes, teacup poodles and getting on with le Carré.
A beautiful day to picnic at Cornelian Bay.
Wattlebirds, an empty campus and things not quite turning out.

An analogue day – with cherries.
(Heiliger Georg. Matthäus Ensinger c.1430. Historisches Museum, Bern).
British agents, Soviet diplomats and St George converge on Bern’s Münsterplattform.
Thunder, sunflowers and writing companions..
Johann Hari on stolen focus