Sunday 26th November 2023

Woke around 0830 so got up and prepared potato pancakes for brunch. Drove over to Stoke Newington to rehearse with B at her flat. Cold morning...she'd popped out to the corner shop to get some tea bags and milk, so I had to hang about outside for five minutes or so. The P J Harvey number is shaping up nicely, and we ran through "Sara", and "Heart With No Companion". Drove back home for lunch. Then hosted Oty, who came round with her mum to rehearse her guitar parts for the Xmas party on Saturday. Cooked a roast chicken with apricots and preserved lemon for dinner. Prep involved making an apricot based paste, and then having to spread it beneath the skin of the bird...Aki did a good job! It made for tasty, moist meat, but we were disappointed with the apricots, as we were expecting them to sing somewhat more...too much effort for too little gain in umami!