Thursday 27th February 2025

Woke around 0800. Got up and porridged at the computer...got to finish this Peabody job before we head for Japan next week! Put together a packed lunch, and drove back out west, this time working my way from Datchet, and Slough, over to Maidenhead, then up to Marlow, and ending the working day in Hazlemere, to the north of High Wycombe. Managed to get into two or three units. Drove home in good time for dinner with Aki, before we ventured to the South Bank for the evening showing of "Becoming Led Zeppelin" at the IMAX. Really enjoyed it...sat there grinning from ear to ear as the film documented the member's early lives and musical careers before coming together rather randomly when the Yardbirds broke up, and forming Led Zeppelin. Jimmy Page emerges as the quiet, unassuming genius behind the whole project...they wrote and worked on the songs for the first album in the Boathouse at Pangbourne, which Jimmy owned by then, having worked from a comparatively young age as a session musician for the likes of Lulu, Donovan, The Kinks and The Stones, before joining the Yardbirds when Jeff beck left. The cinema was all but full, and everyone seemed to have thoroughly enjoyed themselves...great stuff. We walked back across Waterloo Bridge, and caught a No.91 bus from opposite Holborn tube station...