Vignettes 06/05/08
by Bunny ~ 6th May 2008.Filed under: mayfair, vignettes.
Slept much better and woke up moments before the alarm at 6.50am.
A relatively painless journey in. Numerous things caught my eye.
The tramp (who I recognised as I think this is his territory - an ancient, worn, weather beaten old thing) - sitting on a railing reading The Financial Times. Incongrous.
Then, the down-syndrome girl, handing out freebie magazines (London Recruitment something, I forget exactly what it is).
Then the RNLI woman collecting for charity (it must be their annual day as there are RNLI people everywhere). A rather posh old bird she is too (but then this is Mayfair) - I empty the shrapnel from my wallet into the bucket (less than £1 but it’s the thought that counts). “You’re a sailor?” she asks? “No,” say I, “but I know how important a cause it is”. Which I do.
Lunch is spent sunning oneself with a colleague on Green Park (along with the rest of Mayfair it seems, absolutely packed it was). Builders stripped to the waist, pin-striped men in suits, pretty young secretaries. Much of SW1 is here, it seems. My black trousers absorb the heat (plus I don’t have sunglasses on me) so we don’t over-do it.
7th May 2008 at 12:16 am
Excellent evocation of a Spring morning in London - - thank you.