London, England: February 2004

Look left
Cockfosters
Mind the gap
Way out
No Busking

Pollock's Toy Theatres
Oxford Street Old and New Bond Streets
Jermyn Street Saville Row
bespoke double-breasted pinstripe suits
co-respondent shoes
wingtips
long black vicuna topcoats
shades, briefcases, shaved heads
knickers
Liberty
Harrod's

The Savoy
Charles Dickens' House
Fleet Street
Cannibal murderer on the newstand now
My Fair Lady
The Tate Modern
Sir John Soan's
St. Pancras Old Church

Waterloo Bridge

godshite bastard
fecking
gobsmack'd
wanker
cream tea
cucumber and Stilton sandwiches
shortbread
odd crisps
curry takeaway

The British Museum: sketching of a Sunday afternoon

Bombay sapphire
so as not to scare the children
a pair of hotel keys flung on a bar table
swooped up and carried to the lift
later that night
ices squash and chocolates are available from attendants
drinks for interval may be ordered in advance from theatre bars
Noel Coward
West End
anything goes
a wake
and I am told I resemble Evita Peron

scary lost after dark in Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury
rescued by neon Tavistock and Russell Square

the final words I utter before getting into the London cab
(the Knowledge)
it's like the ending of Grand Hotel