Tuesday 1st August 2023

Aki up at 0700 to ready herself for a meeting in Camden. She'd cycled off by the time I got up around 0900. Porridged. Read a bit of "Pickwick". Aki back in time for lunch...I threw together a smoked mackerel salad with cream cheese and avocado on toast. Watched a bit of the England v China game...Lauren James is fast becoming the breakout England superstar! Vince turned up late afternoon and finished applying the Fix-a-Floor filler to the shower tray....says he'll come back tomorrow to do the grouting and siliconing. We ate an early dinner...warmed up the fish curry Aki had made the other day. Walked to Finsbury Park station and took the Piccadilly Line to South Kensington. Got to the Royal Albert Hall with seconds to spare before Isata Kanneh-Mason took to the stage with the Welsh National Orchestra. She gave an impressive rendition of Prokofiev's piano concerto, her performance greeted enthusiastically by a full house. The second half of the evening gave us Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. Wandered slowly back to the tube station afterward, down Exhibition Road, and took a train to Caledonian Road tube station, and a No.91 bus from there to Sussex Way.