First, make sure it’s raining. Very wet weather is best. Next, put on your raincoat; the sky-blue one that you nicked from The Cottage, the old kind that’s rubber over canvas. Take a route that passes through long grass. It will be your scrub-brush. Splash in puddles to rinse. Don’t worry if your meander eventually… Continue reading How to Clean Your Wellies
Transport for London (TFL), the government authority which oversees busses and trains in the greater London metropolitan region, breaks the transport area into nine main zones. The fares it charges for rail journeys vary depending on which zones are involved, and which types of trains are used (Overground, Underground, Thameslink, etc.). Most Londoners consider Zone… Continue reading Why I moved to Zone 9
I went out running and found treasures nestled in the grass,beautiful feathers that fell from our sky-friends. On the way home, I encountered a bicyclist at a roundabout. I let him by, then met him again two sides later. “Beat you!” He said, his wrinkled face breaking into a mischievous grin. “You did! You win!”… Continue reading While Running
Or: what it’s like to sort out a move when the world is closing down around you. Early Days We started hearing murmurs of it in January, but it was something “over there”; not an immediate threat. It was a weird flu. We’d seen its like before. We’d be fine. “Over there” didn’t matter in… Continue reading Scenes from a Pandemic
