Saturday 7th September 2024

Overslept after last night's shenanigans. Aki cooked a generous late breakfast/early brunch, then we headed for the South Bank, taking a bus to Finsbury Park station, then the tube to Embankment...walked over Hungerford Bridge. A lot of people about. Tony had gotten two spare tickets for the matinee of "The Grapes of Wrath" at the National. It was well staged and designed, but failed to draw me in...partly, I think, because I couldn't make out half the dialogue beneath the thick American accents...but the songs were good, and the musicians excellent. Briefly caught Tony in the interval before he went to catch his Hastings train. Walked along the southern Embankment afterward, and caught a train from Blackfriars, getting out at St Pancras. Bought some milk and oven chips in M&S, then caught a No.91 bus home. Warmed up the chicken and mushroom pie, which we finished off with the oven frites, and plenty of vegetables. Watched some BBC Prom on the telly, followed by The Ten. Bath and bed...