2. Dollar store had a new pouffy hat to replace my threadbare one. True, it has hearts on the side outlined in fake seed pearls, but it's old-rose colour and lined, which is all I ask of a winter hat.
3. Erhu player outside the ROM Saturday. I thought, 'Gee, the Lee-Chin Crystal may be ugly, but it makes for great acoustics.' In fact he had an amplifier, and as I was approaching switched from what sounded like Chinese classics to what was definitely the Love Theme from Zefferelli's Romeo and Juliet.