Other minuscule details I like in the breakfast chapter: Lawrie repenting of her toast-grabbing ways; Karen having a smaller appetite for breakfast than the rest of the family (ascetic scholarly ways?!); Nicola's relative lack of conscientiousness over the bedmaking at this point, in comparison to various school tasks, sharing of other home jobs later on, etc.

(I hate the way Mrs Bertie is written here, though. So much better later on.)