I had a massage today and I feel really light-headed as a
result. I don’t have pains in my shoulders for the first time in weeks,
however, which is really exciting. This has been my first day off in ages. I
spent the morning catching up on admin. I had pages of emails, and all sorts of
forms to send off to the Musicians’ Union. I also paid the choir for their work
on the recording and watched my bank account going from very healthy, to
slightly worrying! I hate online banking. I’m slightly numero dyslexic, so
regularly managed to input numbers incorrectly, which caused the screen to go
bright red. The internet kept going down as well in our flat, so it was a
fairly grim, but necessary experience. I
did it whilst listening to myself doing York’s version of Desert Island Discs.
Remind me to crack more jokes the next time someone asks me about my career. I
thought I sounded horribly boring.
I talk about getting electrocuted, having a form of tourettes
and finding people falling over incredibly funny. I also use the phrase; “she
sounds like a China-woman” which horrified Nathan beyond words. Obviously I
meant a woman from China... but I was referring to Kate Bush singing Wuthering
Heights (one of my choices), and feel I must have been drawn into the parlance
of the day.
Pepys had a lovely lie-in with his wife on this date 350
years ago. It was a Sunday and he spent much of the morning doing his household
accounts, feeling the need to make a note of the fact that “my kitchen, besides
wine, fire, candle, sope, and many other things, comes to about 30s. A week, or
a little over.” What he doesn’t mention is whether he considers this to be a
big amount or not.
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