17 September 2009
Back to London today for the City Branch lunch of the Arbitration Club, at Clifford Chance’s office in Canary Wharf -a bit of a drag. I overcame the eating problem by asking for 2 large up-turned basins, each covered with a napkin, on which I rested my right arm and my wine glass. A temporary but inelegant solution.
After lunch I rather stupidly sent off for Brick Lane, where I was hoping to purchase some cheap Indian cotton underpants. A strange quest I agree but the reason is that the cheap lightweight pants are much easier to manipulate, with my weak hands, than the  better quality close-fitting M & S variety. As it happened, having got there in a muck sweat, after two bus rides and long walk, Brick Lane seems to consist almost entirely of Asian restaurants – no retail clothing shops that I could find.