Tuesday 12th November 2024

Woke around 0800. Aki up to make tea and start work at the computer. I read in bed for a bit before rising and porridging. Aki cycled off to Clerkenwell to visit a time showroom. I took delivery of my handcrafted Shruti box…made in Wales! Nice bit of kit. Comes with a foot pedal so I can play guitar at same time. Jim texted to say he and Katherine had come down with covid in Reykjavík, so won’t make it down for Barney’s Jazz Cafe gig on Thursday! Aki home in time for lunch. Got an email from Eddie York saying that our mutual friend, Albert Cooper, erstwhile Chairman of the Board at the New Vic in Stoke, has passed away last night. He'd been ill for a while. Sad news. Spoke to Maggie Stanway on the phone...she fell the other day in the street, and has broken her wrist. She sounded in good spirits, and promised to let us know if she needed any errands running. Wandered across to Waitrose and Morrisons to do some shopping. It started spitting with rain as I walked back. Cooked a tahini and mushroom pasta sauce for dinner. Not much on telly this evening. We rehearsed our Xmas sing-a-long repertoire.