Monday 12th June 2023

Alarm at 0730. Dozed until 0800. Aki brought me a mug of tea. Got up and porridged. Sat at the computer all morning. Broke for lunch...Aki threw a ham salad together. Brief shower and thunder storm blew in...had to rescue the washing from the back garden. Headed for Tate Modern to see the Yayoi Kusama show...took a tube from Finsbury Park, changing at Green Park for the Jubilee Line. Found our way to the correct floor, in the Switchroom block, only to discover that Aki had come on the wrong day! We were denied entry, and repaired to the cafe for a beverage, before deciding to look in on the Mondrian/af Klint exhibition. The pairing of these two artists, who never met, felt a little forced, but it was interesting to see their transformation from figurative landscape painters to abstract painters. Enjoyed the Mondrian much more than the af Klint...I came to the conclusion that she was bordering on the insane. Walked to Blackfriars station and got a train to St Pancras, then a No.259 bus home. I cooked poulet a la moutarde for dinner, with mashed potatoes, and vegetables...very tasty. Read a bit of "Trust" on the sofa...it's an easy read, and gallops along...most intriguingly, there is no dialogue...conversations are reported, but I am now 20% of the way through the novel, and only one word has appeared in quotation marks...less than that, really...one letter, "I"...!!! Warm, humid night. Got to bed late after showering.