Paris, Friday 9 February 2024

I’d left the bedroom window open as I brushed my teeth and washed my face: it was raining outside and I love the sound of a good downpour, falling on the zinc roof of a part of the church across the street, tattoo of a woman’s feet on the pavement, one half of a phone conversation, then a car door opening and closing … wet tires of passing cars. But I closed the window before we got into bed, not wanting to be startled awake by loud sounds - an argument - in the middle of the night.