Today (Saturday) was spent copy editing. Gord had chapters 18, 19, and 20 of his two-volume book for me to look at. I'll be working on it tomorrow, too. One more section and he'll be done volume one. Easy for me to say, but I think it's going well. He, on the other hand, would like to be further along. He'll have a full teaching load in January and won't be able to devote much time to writing.

We walked to a Vietnamese restaurant, appropriately called Pho, for dinner. (I had noticed it on my first walk up that way back in August and had been wanting to try it.) It was a beautiful evening for the mile walk and good to be outside after being holed up in the flat all day. We arrived about 7 to find many open tables. About 10 minutes later, the restaurant was completely full and, soon after that, we were too. The food was very good and the three tipsy women at the next table were entertaining, air drumming to the music with their chopsticks.

We walked around afterward. It was a busy Saturday night in Islington. Some people were dressed for Halloween already and some, I think, were also in costume, but I couldn't be sure. (I'm thinking specifically about three women on a corner outside a pub who looked like ladies of the night, one wearing only a full body girdle.)

Oh how I want this perfect weather to last.

In the middle of writing this post, I got a text from my eldest daughter with a question, so I called her. When I went back to the blog after the call, my laptop was in the middle of a very long update. It was already 2 am, so I wasn't able to finish it last night.

Read: Henry Mayhew's "Watercress Girl" (1851), Charles Dickens's "Down with the Tide" (1853), and C. Maurice Davies "The Walworth Jumpers" (1876) from London Stories