Mere mortals...

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Awake and up at 3:33 am. Back to bed but found it hard to get back to sleep...

Just under 3 hours later, up for good...

The day started as usual - "working"...

...which included writing this and editing yesterday's band session...

Out to the team by 8am...

Breakfast...

Asked Co-Pilot to create a younger, thinner and with more hair version of my pic from the bus last night...

Ooops...

...and then "remove the specs"...

Oh dear...

This afternoon, Anne was off to the football - Hearts beating newly promoted St Johnstone 2-1 - in Montrose, Queens lost yet again - also 2-1...

Spent some time listening to Jimi Hemdrix in the back room...

Of course, I fell fast asleep...

Awoke at 4:45 with no idea where I was, what day it was etc etc...

Got myself back to "normal" and changed and out and down the hill for the bus for a 6pm meet with the Exec Producer...

Onwards...

Other people on the bus were extremely annoying...

I was trying to listen to Floating Points, who we were to witness this evening...

First the guy behind me was talking too loudly...

I moved upstairs...

Someone else got on and sat across from me and proceeded to listen to his phone without headphones...

WTAF...

I moved right up the back...

Children got on and sat in front of me, mucking about...

FFS...

Buy this time I was at Haymarket and switched to the tram - just missing the one Anne was on, heading from Murrayfield to our meet at Leith Walk...

Once again, fellow passenger proved to be extremely annoying - these "Lemsip boys" seemed to be talking to each other at the tops of their voices...

Finally made it through the traffic and met up with Annie and in to Kahani on Elm Row, for some top Indian fayre...

Unpictured pakora, which looked like this (from the website) except there were four...

...around one and a quarter for Anne, two and three quarters for me, then, two Karahi Chicken with a pilau rice and a plain naan...

Superb...

And, we still don't know why, but the bill was reduced by 50% re the cost of our food...

Result!

A constitutional pre heading to the theatre...

Our old home in Montgomery Street...

Then, "Mere Mortals"...

The view upon our arrival...

Stock photos of the, frankly spectacular performance...

...and my own pics of the ovation at the end...

...and the orchestra pit...

A wonderful show indeed, although we had zero idea about what on earth was going on, with no programme and not having done any research beforehand...

(It was a ballet inspired by the myths of Pandora and Prometheus, intertwined with the advent of AI)...

The dancing was amazing - for much of the performance there were 40 dancers onstage in complete synchronisation...

Impressive...

You can get an idea of it from the short videos on YouTube here...

And so, out around 10 and a tram, a bus and a drive home...

...where the highlights of today's Hearts match were enjoyed...

Highlight of the Day: Mere Mortals...

Today's New Music: