Watch Tottenham Hotspur play Real Madrid; with my darling wife who is also into football; just as indeed I shall...

...having first finished reading A Man Of Parts, David Lodge's v long new novel which I am quite near the end of after some days [tho it is, despite what it says in the jacket, not really, taxonomically, a 'novel' at all, but a fascinating imaginatively conceived biography {esp re the sexual exploits} of that revered womaniser tho now somewhat dated turn-of-last-C novelist H G Wells]; just as indeed I shall.

~Michael~