Tuesday 10th February - cooking and Shakespeare

 Thank you all very much for your helpful comments yesterday. I shall make notes; you've all given me a lot to think about. I'll reply soon.

It's been an 'interesting' and tiring morning, which means I've been taking it very this afternoon. I had a routine zoom consultation with a consultant at the ILD (interstitial lung disease) clinic to review the results of the lung function tests I did at the end of January. Broadly speaking I have stabilised at this new (lower) level after dipping noticeably at the beginning of 2024, so that's good news.

So, instead of an interesting post, may I offer two wonderful performances of Shakespeare; Dame Judi Dench on a Graham Norton show 2 years ago;

And, most amazingly, Sir Ian McKellen on a chat show in the USA a few nights ago!

They deliver the words with such clarity of meaning. If only I had known it could be like this when I was slogging through Shakespeare in boring, boring English lessons at school...

I loved Dame Judi's book 'Shakespeare,  the man who pays the rent'. It's fantastic to read, even better to listen to as an audiobook. So 'unstuffy', so real.