Tuesday 14th March 2023

Alarm at 0750. Slept relatively well until around 0530...managed to stack three pillows up in such a way as to allow me to sleep in a half-sitting position, which helped. Coughing a bit this morning though. Got up and made tea and sat at the computer, before porridging. Broke around 1300 and put a lunch together before Aki cycled off to the Business Design Centre to hook up with Helen and Martin...looking at more tiles! I worked until 1645, by which time Aki had returned. She heated up the mapo, which we had with rice and vegetables, then we headed out the door. Caught a bus to Finsbury Park, then a Great Northern train that took us straight in to Moorgate. Short walk to the Barbican Cinema. Watched the five live action shorts that had competed for an Oscar last night. really enjoyed an Italian piece called "La Pupille", part funded by Disney as it happens, but it was full of charm, utilising some lovely theatrical conceits, and garnering great deadpan performances from the numerous young school girls, who were playing kids orphaned by WWII, and incarcerated in an establishment run by Catholic nuns, the action taking place on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day...it ran "An Irish Goodbye" a very close second. Got home by 2115. Watched "Seinfeld" and the News before shower and bed.