There's not too much to say about today. There was a lot of sleeping required. I showed my house-guest around Newcastle a bit - enough to enable her to navigate in and out of town. It was the breather I needed to get my head back into my own life, rather than trapped in the world of musical theatre.

Anyway, plans were looming. The weekend was a bank holiday and we were going to go and stay in a castle. More on that later.