Breakfast with Cici at The Muffin Man in Kensington. Fucking freezing out. Bus is remarkably quick getting from Bloomsbury to KHS, so get there before her - especially as the tube line she needs to get is suspended so she has to walk. We eat first then chat - she's nicely enthusiastic about the two stories, though has some reservations about the ending of Stacked Deck, so we brainstorm some ideas. Leave the meeting still feeling good about it all (she's finished Rebel and completely loved it too; her brother has now nicked off with it) and with some deadlines to hit and her with some research to do.

Make a pitstop at Whole Foods and find Libby’s pumpkin mix (hurrah!) then hop on a bus back to town. It’s the Remembrance Day concert at the Albert Hall so the traffic is terrible and lanes of traffic have been shut; takes a while... Jump off on Oxford Street to go to Office in search of my dream Nike Blazers. They don't have any so run over to Carnaby Street - where they don't have the size I ask for but do have the size smaller, which, miraculously, actually fit perfectly. Guess I overestimated the size of my feet. Get home, faff, nap, shower, make food, faff some more, figure out what wear, jump on a bus down to Vauxhall for Clare’s birthday extravangza. Good times.