Woke around 0700. Got up and made tea for our guests. Drove them into Penzance to catch the 0910 back to Exeter. Aki and I waved them off, then took a short stroll around the town centre…impressive old Town Hall building with a sizeable cupola, but little else of interest. Ordered sausage and egg sandwiches at Sullivan’s Diner, and drove back to Mousehole. Ate our repast on the balcony. I did some exercises. I headed for Minack at noon, stopping at a Farm Shop to buy a steak pasty. Got to the theatre in good time to discover that Nick, our sturdy Captain Ahab, had walked out on the production last night after issuing an ultimatum to the director…either use his method of igniting the harpoon at the end of Act 1, or he goes…the director waved him goodbye…Martin South is to take his place this afternoon! We worked through three or four set pieces for Martin’s benefit. He’ll be using a script, of course. Show was all but a sellout…Martin came on and did his first two or three scenes off book…very impressive. He got an extra cheer from the audience…and us…at the curtain call. I walked up to the car park to eat my ‘dinner’ in the car and listen to R4. Bought ice cream at the shack. Aki and her chum from JCUK were watching tonight…they loved it, and were especially effusive about Martin’s turn. A couple of nasty squalls blew in after the interval…my guitar got wet…managed to play most of it in the musician’s all weather gazebo. Really not looking forward to Thursday’s forecast deluge!!! Met Aki in the car park…her chums had already departed…and drove back to Mousehole in the gloom.
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