Had a Sunday walk today on Gallows Down, Inkpen, an area of outstanding natural beauty.

John Pawson

Architects never just stick to buildings, so it's off to London to photograph the gentle and brilliant minimalist architect John Pawson with the new range of kitchenware that he's designed. It's called John Pawson for Demeyere and it's heavy and lustfully lovely and way out of my price range - and it's much too nice to smell of haddock.

Antony hegarty

In a small street of vinyl record shops and cellar bars that open after midnight, up a narrow staircase behind a repair shop, is a single room where John Marchant runs the Isis gallery. He's hung the amazing art of Antony Hegarty, better known for his music. Sadly Hegarty was in New York. It's in Hanway Street and still open. http://isisgallery.org

Haddock Free Zone

Baked a nice piece of haddock for supper last night. This morning we cleaned the oven, washed the kitchen walls, cleaned the kitchen floor, laundered the tea towels, replaced the waste bin, rewashed all the utensils - and after 24hours the house still STINKS OF FISH! So we have now officially declared that as from today, this house will be a strictly enforced HADDOCK FREE ZONE.

Water Rail

Looked out of the back door to see a Water Rail walk up and tap three times on the glass, flutter a bit, and then walk off down the garden again. I never really expected that I would ever see a Water Rail.

After the Fall

They came back from the hospital and the care home devastated, frightened and confused. Ten weeks later the old man is dead and his wife is in a care home. She looked around the lounge at the other residents and said, "I don't think I'll go to the funeral. I'd have to lock up, and what would I do with all these people?" Then she cried, partly for her husband, but also because being able to cope had always been the most important thing to her, and she knew it was never going to be that way again.