Saturday 1st February 2025

 

Woke around 0800…lower back giving me hip…dunno why. Put a smoked trout brunch together with poached eggs. Aki still feeling a little under the weather so didn’t join me for a trip into town. Took a bus down to Angel and had a look at the running shoes in Cotswolds. Nothing caught my eye, so headed for Tottenham Court Road. Got off the bus on Oxford Street and found myself in a branch of Ecco…bought some walking shoes, and walked round to Denmark Street to buy guitar strings. Walked on toward Covent Garden. Found another Cotswold outlet, where I happened upon a North Face puffa jacket going for £120 in the half price sale…snapped it up. Aki rang to ask me to buy some goods at the Japanese shop in Brewer Street, so I walked westward through Leicester Square and Piccadilly. Stopped for tea at a little Italian cafe, then walked up Carnaby Street. Popped into at the Stones store…they were flogging Ronnie Wood’s dreadful paintings of the Stones in various guises for half price! Still too much in my opinion! Took a couple of buses home. We warmed up the prawn curry for dinner, with rice, and roti. Sticky toffee pudding and custard for afters. Watched a documentary on Bob Marley and his relationship with London, marking 45 years since his death. MOTD, bath, and bed…