Friday 3rd February 2023

Woke around 0800. Got up at 0830 and made tea. Aki still feeling under the weather, so took her a mug of tea and lemon. Porridged. Sat at the computer all morning. Broke to make lunch at 1300, then back at the chalk face. Aki prepared dinner…warming up the cod I’d baked t’other day, and adding potatoes, leeks and mushrooms. Then headed for the Barbican, taking bus and tube. 

Saw an extraordinary triptych by Belgian dance theatre company, Peeping Tom…three related pieces of inspired theatricality and superhuman physicality set aboard a slowly sinking cruise ship that seemingly floats into a medieval vision of hell. The final piece is danced on a floor covered in several inches of water. All the dancers seemed double-jointed, permitting them to achieve mind boggling feats with swirling arms and legs…we even sat through two intriguing set changes which were punctuated with performance, even though most of the audience had popped out for the interval…an astonishing evening’s spectacle! Got home around 2230 and watched a bit of Graham Norton's show before shower and bed...