Friday 21st July 2023

Aki up at 0800 to ready herself for rowing club. She cycled off before I managed to rise. Got up and porridged. Sat at the computer for most of the morning, working. Broke for lunch when Aki got back. She threw together a ham and poached egg salad with nduja toast. Managed another 3 hours or so at the computer this afternoon, plugging away at the VP research on the stock I’d looked at in Cardiff. I cooked a pasta dish for dinner, with fried mushrooms and pancetta in a pesto and creme fraiche sauce…very tasty! Aki made banana ice cream for afters. Watched "Enys Men" (Cornish gaelic for Stone Island), a strange folk horror tale set on a rock off the Cornish coast, and inhabited by a single woman tasked with taking daily soil temperature measurements. But she was not alone...there were ghosts of drowned lifeboatmen and sailors, suffocated tin miners, a dead daughter, and 16th century witches around every nook and cranny! It was shot on grainy 16mm, and looked like an artefact from years gone by, but was made by Mark Jenkin in 2021.