Aug. 10th, 2018

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Five Things on a Friday Make A Post-Surrealist Comment on Fish. These may or may not be five things.

I am in a play. It is called Skirt. It's been a really good experience. I've enjoyed acting and being part of a company. The play is political and I like to support that. The play is new, writen by a friend and that's all good to get behind. My character is a brilliantly awful comic gift. The play has sold really well. As of the last ticket report we had sold out Monday, Wednesday, Friday. We have 5 tickets unsold for Tuesday and Thursday and we have 4 tickets unsold for tonight which puts our occupancy up at about 97%. That's pretty good for a new, political play by an unknown playwrite and an amatuer company. We had some good reviews (I mean the reviews have been positive, not necessarily of high quality). It's been good. Skirt closes on Saturday, to be followed by a party in Portobello. Sold out, Fringe show, world premier, that'll do.

I had my annual trip to see Chris Turner, MLW's nephew's cousin do improvised rap. He's very good. Beers after with nephew, nephew's new girlfriend and Chris. MLW and I are going to see Mark Steel tonight. Hopefully there will be a steak dinner before hand.

I am both a little tired and a little under nurished. I should probably have taken today off work and caught up on both sleep and food. I'll survive but I notice that I fell upon this morning's breakfast fruit salad like a wolf on the fold. I've had a number of early, gym mornings and a number of late nights.

The gym continues in the theme of weight lifting. I'm now up to doing two sets of three reps at 120 kgs. It's not my personal best lift but it is the most reps at the highest weight I've done.

I have been watching Unforgotten, which is a cold case detective series with Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar. Walker in particular is an excellent actor and gives a beautifully weighted performance. Her character is not your typical maverick or loner or damaged individual common in this genre. She's a good team manager who skillfullly turns the procedural handle until the team have narrowed down the possible options enough to act. I'm enjoying it very much.

This week I have found out about various intersting navies.

I was also reminded that Stephan Moffat is alive and well and still, apparantly, at large in Britain and practising his "craft".

It was nice to see Boris Johnson defend Britain's traditional liberal values of tolerance, free speech and civility by making rude jokes about the least politically powerfully group in our country, conservative Muslim women. If he's going to be concerned about people with cloth over their face I wish he'd focus his attention on the IRA and stop pratting about the Irish border. I would normally say that I do not agree with what he's saying but I would defend to the death his right to say it but in Johnson's case I might decide to arrive just a few moments too late.

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