Tuesday 25th February 2025

Woke around 0730. Got up and made tea. Porridged at the computer. Aki cycled off to Harringay Ladder for a site visit. I made a packed lunch and headed west in the car for inspections in Hillingdon. Lunched in the car on a street in Hounslow. Got home around 1615. Did some work at the computer before Aki served up a salmon and lentil dinner. Walked to Finsbury Park station and caught a Piccadilly Line train in to Leicester Square. Walked down to the Noel Coward Theatre where we met Kate and Titus before taking our seats in the circle for the opening night of the West End run of "The Last Laugh", starring, among others, Bob Golding as Eric Morecambe...I shared a dressing room with Bob at the Vic in Stoke back in the early 1990s. 

He does a grand impersonation of Eric...I saw his one-man show on Eric and Ernie about 15 years ago, which remains one of the best solo shows I have seen. We repaired to the Lamb & Flag around the corner for a swift half afterward. Bob unable to come meet us, as he was having to schmooze with his producers, it being first night. We walked to Covent Garden and caught a Picadilly Line tube train to Cally Road, where we said farewell to Kate and Titus, and caught a No.91 bus home from outside the tube station...