c'mere to me, I wish I was a mayfly on the River Tay / I'd fit all my joys and my pleasures in one perfect day / I wish I was the sunlight, just sitting on the Mississippi / I'd settle for a shopping trolley in the Liffey

• a cat asleep under a bookshop table
• a bird on its branch, holding fast in a storm
• bronzed and freckled with a touch of red on my cheeks and sun-bleached hair
• an early-riser
• a witch with her familiar
• walking my dog across the field and down the bridle path
• a beekeeper
• on the right side of history
• the sunrise
• a dormouse
• a revolutionary
• on stage at Shakespeare’s Globe
• a magical librarian