Did something to my back this morning and am now feeling quite miserable. It’s hard to stand up, especially from sitting. It’s sure to be temporary, but very dispiriting and it was truly unsettling to try to stand up and feel that my lower body is unable to support me.
We had someone over for tea today, a German living nearby. Nice fellow though I am not sure he enjoyed the chai I made. He used to live in the neighbourhood before 2016 and only returned this year, and is finding it rather depressing I think, as it seems that livability has greatly declined.
We started watching The Bear this evening. Or rather I started watching it along with the GF, who finished both available seasons a few days ago and insisted that we start it at once. I must say, it is very promising, a very different beast from the average and the rubbish of recent months. Also it has potential, at least, to enter The Wire or The Sopranos territory, in terms of being genuinely insightful which, for all my affection for it, Andor is unlikely to.