I took these photos late last month. Remember in Anne of Green Gables, how Matthew goes to the station to collect – he thinks – an orphan boy to work on the farm? He finds Anne, and on the way home they drive along an avenue arched over by fruit trees in bloom, which Anne, 11, immediately christens ‘The White Way of Delight’. I thought about that when I saw the tree below.

That’s all this week. I’m deep in my writing cave – more about that another time. And I’ll just mention that Stolen Sister is on a 99p UK/US deal this weekend…