Lunch at J Sheekey’s with Eric, Terry and Terry G. One of the best group lunches I can remember. Eric is in town alone after some filming in Dublin (about which he’s mysterious and self-deprecating) and shopping uncontrollably, he says.

Terry J is relieved to have sent ‘Who Murdered Chaucer?’ off to Methuen at last. TG, torn between Brothers Grimm and John Cusack/Dustin Hoffman films, is in an agony of indecision.

But much laughter and silliness, largely stoked by Eric. The food is excellent – oysters and smoked haddock. He goes back to shopping and I walk across to the office to collect my bags. Sharp, slanting sunlight making the streets interesting.