All Our Pomp of Yesterday, As One With Nineveh and Tyre! (part two)

Dear Juliet

Damp dawn gave way to the azure opalescence of a mid-May London day. I reluctantly swapped the rugby shirt for a blue cotton top and cream jeans, made my way to the Society of Authors in Bloomsbury and after Harriet Tyce's talk, began trying to find ways of creating a photographic memento for you.

Anna Ganley (SoA chief executive) gave me a good bit of help and here's the other result:














With that, I headed back to my usual haunts on Charing Cross Road and I noticed a first edition of Donna Tartt's The Little Friend in Henry Pordes. I'm back in London 15th-19th June so, if it's still there, I can pick it up if you'd like me to.

Yes, I used to love doing this sort of thing for you.

Seriously considered going to a showing of The Producers at the Garrick Theatre, but decided it was just too nice a day to stay inside so I wandered round Leicester Square, saw Gene Kelly and bumped into this piece of street graffiti:




























Also got this shot of The Mousetrap for you. I belatedly remembered you kinda like the London stage, so I just thought I'd confirm it's still running after all these years...



















Got back to Heathrow before it got too late and checked the state of flights to America at the Virgin Atlantic terminal. This is just a routine habit of mine and, after all, I do like going to America. I think I can also see a way to evade ICE if necessary. What I can't see is whether there'll be enough aviation fuel if the situation in the Strait of Hormuz isn't sorted out, and I can't see how the situation in the Strait of Hormuz can be sorted out.

And okay, no jokes about going to Dubai for a vacation...

Only other thought: after running around London for three days I wasn't particularly tired. Apparently, a sixty-one year-old would be pretty crocked.

I really did feel more like thirty-eight.

Fascinating.

Anyway, sorry this post is late. I watched your interview on the BNM Webfest and got a bit distracted.

It was good.

Love,

James


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