Wednesday 15th March 2023

Not a great night's sleep...intermittent bouts of coughing. Aki popped in to say goodbye....she cycled off to Rowing Club. I got up shortly afterward and made tea. Porridged. Sat at the computer all morning, breaking around 1315 for lunch. Aki got home around 1600...she'd cycled up to Middlesex Hospital in Edmonton after lunching at the cafe next door to the Rowing Club. One of the Club members, Piers, has been hospitalised following a couple of strokes, so they are taking turns in paying him a visit. She said he was talking OK, but has trouble swallowing, so is being fed through a tube. He may be transferred to another establishment soon, where the focus will be on rehabilitation. Worked through until 1830. Aki warmed up the Spanish chicken and chorizo stew. Watched the Final of "The Piano"...the four pianists chosen from the railway station heats got to perform at the RFH, and the little blind girl blew everyone away...tissues were passed around.