1. I love cooking a barbeque on our veranda, but I’m forming a view that July evenings are too cold for this optimism.

2. I’m re-reading a book on the song ‘Wichita Lineman’ and still find it astonishing that it was written by Jimmy Webb when he was barely 22.

3. I would enjoy running on the Glenelg North beach but because of the recent storms there isn’t really one. The sea has reclaimed what was briefly ours.

4. This is a lovely billboard.

5. Has anybody ever had a dream that began at the very beginning, and not part way through the story?

6. I might buy a roll of film, take some photos, and get it developed. I almost hope one is accidentally of my shoes. I could use the honesty.

7. Can anybody lend me an abacus?