I took my large latte and sat in the window, totally jet lagged (my body was screaming "it's
For a start the road sweeper in
There was a security guard in a little hut, who emptied the bin from his hut into the sweeper's cart when he wasn't looking. Then there was the happy carpenter busy dismantling some wooded thing in front of the window. He was singing too. And there was a little girl who screamed "I don't want take off my skirt" and her mummy replied calmly that it was okay, she didn't want her to take off her skirt in public either. And there was a Dad and his daughter going to buy croissants. And a kiwi couple buying the paper. And the girl from the croissant shop standing in the doorway with a coffee catching a ray of sun while waiting for customers. And a little kid with a tracheotomy (we were opposite
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November 27, 2005
Lamb's Conduit Street
Yesterday morning I flew in from Montreal . I arrived in London and found myself with a few hours to spare before my train to Edinburgh , so I got off the tube a stop before Kings Cross and went for a coffee on Lamb's Conduit Street . This appealing (bizarre?) sounding road is near Russell Square ; I know it well because I lived round the corner from it for a year and worked opposite it for almost three. It's pedestrianised and as it's near the financial district it's pretty quiet early on a saturday morning.
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