Alarm at 0730. Aki feeling a bit rough, so I got up and made her tea. Porridged. Did an hour or so at the computer. Warmed up some soup to take for lunch, then set off for Shepherd's Bush. Traffic very heavy, but got there by 1100, and met up with Zeke, another rookie who I had been asked to accompany on external inspections. Found him in what I'd taken to be a cafe, where I'd arranged to pick him up, but turned out to be an ice cream parlour, so we decamped to a Costa a few yards away. He told me he'd recently completed an Estate Management course at Westminster University, but had been groomed for a career as a pro footballer....on the books as a youngster at Spurs, and then at Brighton, but things hadn't worked out, and he'd sought an alternative career path, having left school at 16. Long day in the car. Took us down to Fulham, Brentford, then to Hampton, before doubling back to Hounslow, and ending up in Northolt, where I put him on a train back into London. I mopped up the final postcode stop in Harlesden, on the busy North Circular, then headed for home via Waitrose. Got home around 1800. Aki had warmed up the fish curry, which we ate with rice, spicy vegetables, and chapati. Watched a bit of telly...entertaining episode of MasterChef which saw the final five cooking with a whacky experimental chef, at the Crick Institute...some extraordinary invention on display. Aki retired to bed early...still nursing a sore throat.
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