Thursday 16th May 2024

Woke late...I stayed up a bit later than usual last night, reading Dickens...I'm now about halfway through "Our Mutual Friend". Got up at 1015 and porridged at the computer. Broke for lunch at 1345. Aki cooked up a cheese omelette. Got confirmation that we had tickets for the West End show tonight. Worked at the computer for a couple more hours in the afternoon. Broke to do some Kinks rehearsal. Aki made a crab pasta dinner. Met Kevin from No.93 outside our pad, and took a bus to Finsbury Park, and from thence a Piccadilly Line train to Covent Garden. Got to the Gillian Lynne Theatre in good time...we had tickets to see *Standing at the Sky's Edge", a National Theatre production centred around the songs of Sheffield guitarist Richard Hawley, following the stories of various tenants of the Park Hill flats through the decades. The book was a bit cliched...but the songs were great, and the band superb. We all enjoyed it, and walked back through Holborn afterward to catch a No.91 bus home. Bathed before bed at 0100...