Thursday, 24 September 2009

Seen on the Tube

The Central Line - South Woodford to St Paul's
Three iPod listeners and a newspaper reader

  • I am sitting opposite a man with fleshy, dissatisfied lips and an untrimmed beard over a pale, spotty face. He is carrying an old black, leather bag with mud crusted onto the bottom of it. He is listening to music on big, green, expensive looking headphones.
  • A large lady, in her late 50s, wearing a well-cut linen trouser suit and a sparkly breast cancer pin badge, has very shouty rock music leaking from her ear buds.
  • The man next to me has an iPhone that he doesn't want to put down. He is fiddling endlessly with it. Playing games, putting a playlist together, checking emails and going back to another game. I want to tell him to calm down and read a book instead.
  • The young woman on the other side of me smells very strongly of bleach and is frowning as she reads the Wall St. Journal.

After my errands I bought a large cup of coffee and a croissant and sat in the churchyard at St Paul's Cathedral to admire the roses.




I don't miss work at all, but I do miss seeing the City in the sunshine.


3 comments:

  1. Lovely observations. I've not worked in central London for more than 13 years and there is plenty to miss and plenty not to!

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  2. I worked in central London for a nonth once and I have to say I wasn't sorry once the month was over and I could scamper back to the countryside ... I do like visiting though!

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  3. Great post - and great pictures - love the way the Nero blue and your shoes match the colour of the sky over London today.

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