Now then. I wasn’t expecting my latest Country Diary to be out till Monday, so when Beloved shouted from the living room “You’re in it today!”, it was a very pleasant surprise. We get the hard copy every Saturday, so it was lovely to see my recent take on the waders/shorebirds of Tyrella in Saturday’s sepia column next on the letters page.

Then I checked my Guardian app and that’s when I realised that the paper version and the online version are a little differently finessed themselves. The paper one has my original opening. The online version is a little compressed. But hey, great to have both.

Hence, the uploads of the photos of the paper version. Just because.

Clearly this must be a plot to ensure that I buy the hard copy every time I have a piece published.

Thanks as always to Paul Fleckney, the Country Diary’s editor. It’s great to get a Saturday slot, no matter what the Bauplan.