The early morning radio played the sound of a meadow. Lavender attracts more bumblebees than honeybees because of their longer tongues, a zoologist who had never expected to speak on the radio said. The presenter laughed in their older person, educated person, Radio 4 way. The zoologist corrected the presenter. The presenter said that the weather that day would be crisp and fair, an English word meaning both light haired, light skinned, just and reasonable and moderate, and the experience of clement weather without rain or cloud or unbearable heat. Across the small island, and across one part of the other smaller island, people woke up, got dressed, showered, drank coffee, fed their children, overslept, got on trains and buses and started their cars; they walked into school halls, churches and community centres and voted.