Woke around 0830. Aki already up to ready herself for a site meeting in Haringay. Porridged. Took a walk up Highgate Hill…bought a coffee at Gail’s and found a bench in Waterlow Park. Walked home to find Aki back at her laptop. Made a salad to go with the squash and sage slice I’d purchased. Pottered about in the afternoon reading and listening to music. Warmed up the fish pie for an early dinner then set off for Southwark. Just after Waterloo on the Bakerloo line Aki noted in her phone diary that she had put Friday down as the trip to Southwark Playhouse…I’d had it in for Thursday, tonight…checked the tickets to discover she was right and I was wrong! We bailed out at Lambeth North, intending to walk across Waterloo Bridge as it was such a pleasant evening. The walk took us past the IMAX cinema and I noted they were showing “One to One”, the documentary focussing on Lennon and Ono’s move to NYC in 1971…we purchased tickets for the 2000 showing then walked to the South Bank Centre for a drink overlooking the Thames. The movie was bitty…lots of different material, much of it 70s era TV footage of the cultural and political events shaping the USA at the time…and bits of poor quality home video…this didn’t translate well to the huge IMAX screen as the resolution wasn’t good enough…but it was an intriguing watch, centred around a benefit concert John and Yoko put on in Central Park to raise funds for a mental health facility called Willowbrook which housed over 5,000 child inmates in dire conditions. The money raised allowed one-to-one care to be funded.
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