Our first few days were taken up with necessary business, just getting established. We soon discovered nothing is straightforward, simple or convenient. Everything one does requires a long walk, many stairs and tube train or bus, or both. It s well used and full of teachers and a variety of health workers of many nationalities. Our rooms are clean, warm and secure.
Grant lives on the next floor up.
We both overlook trees with squirrels running about. There is a good hot shower. I go past rows of white terrace houses with black railings, a lovely park which is private gardens, I assume for the residents of said houses, interesting shops, a hospital, St Luke s Anglican, a local church as big as a cathedral, a wood paneled pub and a landscapers yard, to reach the red brick and aluminum windowed squared 3 story Thamesbrook. Doesn t fit the picture at all. Everything looks appealing at night, glistening and golden lit.