(says the bus driver)
somewhere between the roundabout and powerscroft road (judging by the diversion)
anybody got any news?
the fire brigade website had the news. a fire at an end of terraced house on newick road.
a ground floor and first floor of the three-storey house destroyed by the fire. three people left the building before the fire brigade's arrival and four were taken to hospital by london ambulance service.
31 calls were taken regarding the blaze. the first was received at 1242 and the fire was under control by 1528.
when horsemouth wandered past (rubbernecking) an hour later lower clapton road was still blocked off (and rendered a pedestrianised paradise) as far as powerscroft road. the buses had been redirected down chatsworth road and up powerscroft causing a vast bottleneck.
it doesn't take much for this city to bloodclot up.
horsemouth was coming back from walthamstow and book buying mission - sally army by william morris museum, scope and british heart foundation at the top of the market.
some interesting books in scope but nothing of major interest or at a price that made me want to buy. saw a william empson (some versions of pastoral) but scope wanted six squid for it... (so it was a no).
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in the evening horsemouth attended a meeting of the communal endeavour but no sooner had he got the key task of the evening done than further horrors exploded out of the grave. for a brief second it looked like a procedural objection would sink the whole thing.
so ends the day of the equinox.
on the thursday horsemouth heads home. he will write more in the morning.
it is (of course) 130 years since the martian invasion. when only poor personal hygiene and unchlorinated drinking water stood between humanity and oblivion. there will be (discrete) celebrations throughout the month of august.
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