Time to buy

Hotel Starlino Elderflower Aperitivo, £23.95, available from Master of Malt (01892 888376; www.master ofmalt.com)

Beatrix Potter Botanicals Tea Towel, £10, V&A Shop (020–7942 2000; www.vam. ac.uk)

‘You have to know how to stand so they see you but do not see you. You have to look at them as if you are not looking. Be invisible but helpful. Be useful but absent. Be like air, like nothing’ The Shadow King, Maaza Mengiste

Norber Yorkshire Wool Tweed Cotton Lined Flat Cap, £39.95, Glencroft (01524 251747; www.glencroft countrywear.co.uk)