My weekend: Mary Beard

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…

My weekend: Mary Beard

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”

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