Tuesday 26th November 2024

Woke around 0900. Got up and brought a mug of tea back to bed, and read the first chapter of The Old Curiosity Shop. Aki left to go meet Tammy at Tate Modern. I rehearsed some mandolin, and harmonica, for Gig Night. Cooked a pasta sauce ahead of tonight's dinner. Walked to Finsbury Park station in the winter sunshine, and caught a tube train to Oxford Circus. Popped in to John Lewis's to try on their merino lined leather gloves...but they didn't have black. Aki called to say she was making her way toward Holborn for some lunch...so I hopped on a bus to Holborn and walked round to the ramen noodle house near the Garden Cinema, where I found Aki already seated and surveying the menu. We shared a large bowl of tasty soup with pork, and a couple of bao buns with pork and sauce...very good! Will definitely go there again! Walked round to the Garden Cinema, where I'd secured two £5 tickets to see Steve McQueen's new movie, "Blitz". It was OK...6/10. The script and plotting got a bit clunky here and there, but the effects were great...it looked like they had destroyed half the east end to make the movie! Paul Weller had a nice little cameo as Grandad, plonking away on the Joanna in the front parlour. Took a Piccadilly Line train to Holloway Road, and walked home via Boots, where Aki collected a new electric toothbrush she had ordered. Warmed up the pasta sauce, with papardelle and peas  for dinner. Aki had a zoom meeting with JCUK. I sat and read some Dickens.