Some of what Erone covers here happens at home. A birthday that turns into more people than the kitchen was built for, a Sunday lunch that runs into the evening, the first time you host anything at all and spend the week before worrying about whether you own enough chairs. The rest is what is on nearby, the kind of thing you hear about from a neighbour rather than a listings site.

Every piece tells you where it is, roughly what it costs, what actually happens once you get there, and whether the trip is worth making. We say when it isn’t. A craft afternoon that turns out to be a sales pitch, a market with six stalls and a queue for the only good one, that’s the sort of thing better known beforehand.