Thursday 4th May 2023

Woken by Aki's coughing around 0730. Got up and made tea. Porridged. Did a little work at the computer, and booked our hotel for the trip to Berlin in September. Made lunch...fried some tinned sardines, with salad and toast. I took my constitutional up Highgate Hill. Stopped at Archie's for a coffee, and read a bit of "A Golden Age", before walking home via Sainsburys to pick up some broccoli and milk. Cooked up a saag aloo to accompany the fish curry we'd defrosted. Walked up to No.93 to call on Kevin, and we knocked up Gareth at No.120, then walked to the bus stop on Holloway Road to catch the No.43 to Highgate. Aki too poorly to join us, so she was left behind on the sofa with the TV remote. Went to see Ridiculsmus, a comic physical theatre duo formed back in the early 90s...they were reprising their piece, "Beautiful People", at Jackson's Lane Theatre, a study of an ageing couple as they near the end of their lives, moving painfully slowly about the stage before sitting at a table, heading off to the corner of the room (painfully slowly) to emit a fart out of earshot of their better half, taking their tablets, spilling their drink, and so on...it was nicely performed, with great attention to detail, and mesmerising movement, but narratively it felt a little confused, and we came out a little non-plussed.