Tuesday 29th July 2025

Woke around 0700. Aki up at 0730 to cycle off to Harringay for a site visit. I got back into bed with a cuppa tea. Did some Italian lessons…I can now order pasta and chicken at the restaurant. Read for a bit...finished The Wreck of the Essex...a gruelling first hand account of a shipwreck in the south Pacific...thirst, hunger, enforced cannibalism. It was amazing that anyone survived to tell the tale! Walked over to Waitrose to do a little shop, and collected a pair of troos from the alterations fella on Tollington Way. Came home and put lunch together. Did some pruning of the wisteria out front. We ventured into town to look at sofas in John Lewis’s on Oxford Street…nothing caught our fancy. Walked up through Noho and took a tube train from Warren Street back to Finsbury Park. Cooked pork shoulder for dinner, with sautéed potatoes and plenty of vegetables, followed by Bon Maman salted creme caramels. Watched a bit of telly and did a little ironing ahead of our drive to Suffolk tomorrow. Bath and bed…