Most of my sleeping was in daylight

What a weekend! Dinner on Friday night with our next door neighbours. Always dangerous when you can get home within a few minutes. Pravina produced a brilliant feast of minimalist Indian dishes for ten of us. It was light by the time I got to bed. Had to have forty winks in the afternoon.

Saturday night was my 70th birthday party. Lovely private room at Balthazar in Covent Garden. Thirty, thirsty, close friends: 15 bottles of Champagne, 10 bottles of red wine. 18 bottles of white wine, 13 bottles of still water and 17 bottles of sparkling water. Thirsty indeed! And another very late night.

Sunday lunch at La Trompette in Chiswick. Exquisite. Sat down to read the Sunday papers later on;  fell asleep in the sunshine!