Tuesday 21st February 2023

Woke around 0830. Got up to make pancakes, which we had with a chocolate tahini sauce, banana, and cinnamon honey. Managed an hour or so at the computer. Threw a packed lunch in a tupperware box and headed south-eastward to finish the inspections I'd been doing yesterday. Took me to Clapton, then on down toward Hackney Wick, Shoreditch, and ended up at the Limehouse Basin. Ate my lunch in the car on Horseferry Road. Happened upon Gordon Ramsey's Bread restaurant on the river front...wouldn't have gotten much for my £10 lunch allowance! Got home about 1615. Did a couple of hours at the laptop. Ma and pa Facetimed us on the occassion of dad's 93rd birthday...Kath was there doing the cooking, and Jim and Emma were expected. He seemed happy with his present...at least the oven gloves will keep him warm. Aki cooked pasta and a carbonara sauce, which we ate with green beans. Watched a programme about pooh...which seemed pertinent at the moment, given my occassional troubles. Caught the second half of a moving Panorama programme, made up of various video diaries filmed by participants in Ukraine's fight against the Russian fascists.