Breakfast time

AS I prepare my breakfast (lovely Mexican coffee, croissant, juice) while enjoying Shostakovich piano music on the radio, I look forward to the day ahead.

An exhibition? I can choose from Velasquez (National Gallery), Leonardo drawings (V&A), Holbein (Tate Britain), a much-praised show of contemporary US art (Royal Academy), and many others.

Then theatre - will need some luck here, as I stupidly didn't book in advance, but I hope to see Simon Russell Beale in The Life of Galileo at the National Theatre.

Resolution: take more advantage of the opportunities offered by this wonderful city.