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Date: 09 May 2008 23:37:42
For I have found the secret present which I lost and thought never to find again. All will be revealed in approximately 11 days' time.
Meanwhile, The Grouch and I went to a swing dance tonight, organized in support of Christian Aid as part of the Pentecost Festival which, confusingly, is not at Pentecost. There was a jazz band, group tuition in swing dance steps (which we didn't join in as I wasn't sure my back was up to it), lots of agile young women in Fifties-style whirly skirts, fairtrade juices, Cola and chocolate, and a discussion of climate change in the interval. We missed that bit because we were too hungry and left to go for a meal (we did have one dance before we left though) The whole thing was at my old church in Waterloo which has become very posh and arty since I left. And we ate at the Italian restaurant on the corner which has not changed in the thirty years I have known it, and probably not in the at least fifty years it has been there. Finally we had a stroll around my old haunts, checking out which shops and restaurants had changed and which hadn't, and peered up at my old flat where someone appeared to be in. There seems to be a new fence round the flat roof which wasn't there in my day, but certainly makes it safer.
There are far more facilities in terms of shopping etc there than there were when I lived there. But I wouldn't go back - it was a lonely life on the whole. In spite of all the struggles I'd rather be where I am now.