Wednesday 18th September 2024

Aki up early to ready herself for rowing club. She had cycled off by the time I got up at 0930. Porridged. Caught up with my blog. Rehearsed The Witching Hour in the back bedroom before Aki returned from lunch. Made minestrone soup using the excess sauce from the chicken cacciatore...yum! Managed some more guitar rehearsal after lunch, while Aki worked at the computer. Aki cooked a carbonara for dinner. Walked to Finsbury Park station and caught a train to Euston, making our way across the Euston Road, to The Place to see some dance. Had tickets for a Scottish Dance Theatre double-bill which had gotten good reviews during the Edinburgh Festival. Great seats toward the rear, but central. Really enjoyed the two pieces, Flock, and Moving Clouds. Fine young dancers, including a disabled dancer with a foreshortened left arm, and no hand...great to see her expressing herself so fluently. As we were exiting, Aki bumped into Gillian, and elder rowing club member, who I'd met at Piers's 80th birthday drinks. She must be mid-seventies...she rows, swims at London Fields Lido, and goes to dance classes at The Place! We followed her and her friend, a Scottish woman whose name we couldn't figure, to a local hostelry for a swift half. As we came out of the pub, we came across the dancers stood around the tabling on the pavement. Chatted with the disabled dancer, and a little Anglo-Japanese dancer, who was excellent in the pieces. He's off to Tokyo next month to dance in an opera, William Tell. We walked back to Kings Cross, and caught a No.259 bus home...bath and bed.