Elizabeth Holmes: Who Is Elizabeth Holmes and What Is She Accused Of?
Reading Will Self is almost as enjoyable as acting; I’d give more pats on the back, but that’s the nature of the profession
Going to perform The Three Sisters in Edinburgh
Reading Can I Have a Fragment of My Heart? by Will Self
Writing Haiku
Reading How I Became a Hippie by David Barsamian
Crossword/Memory
Reading Saturday with Mike Barnicle
Listening to Boulez’s L’histoire de la nuit on Radio 3
Singing
Reading Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Reading The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus by Terry Pratchett
Reading Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Reading Austen’s Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Playing disc
Reading a stack of books with Harrison Salisbury
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Writing Down the Bones by Frances Fitzgerald
Visiting Borders
Visiting branches of Wilkinsons
Racing with Javier Manjarres in the USA GP Grand Prix
Spending time in Argentina and Italy with a couple of friends
Reading Dutch Fiction: All That Is
Reading The Nicovarese Translation
Cooking
Reading Nigella Lawson’s How to Eat
Reading A Stolen Dance by Patricia McCormick
Book making
Cooking up a dish with a friend
Reading Raphael Selwood’s Faith,
La Féminia, and Vita
Reading Michel Faber’s The Silent World
Cooking a braised meat dinner with a friend
Thinking of cooking a vegetarian feast on the weekend
Walking
Inveigling our friend into our neighbourhood
I’m taking her out for dinner and champagne, then leading her round a small market in the village
Walking with friends on my day off
At home in Berkeley, I began to like the lamp posts and the wide, pocked and tiled roofs, I was filled with nostalgia for older homes and villages
Ad-hoc lunch. No fridge. I put some fresh pasta in a bucket and went on my way
Reading Steer Your Way by Joy Nicholson
Aha, parking spaces and having a machine in your drive to pay for your gas
“NO PETER,” said Naga, “I’ll use the kitchen and our communal fridge and the bathroom sink!”
Reading The Battle for the Planet by Karmenu Vignes
Playing like Naga in a school assembly. Helen said, “It was nice to see you, Naga. Have a slow day”