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Wednesday 21st April 2004

I've been back in London a month. It's still a bit bizarre, but many elements of life in this city are reassuringly familiar. How easy it's been to slip back onto the grey and rainy streets with the rest of the expressionless white collar workers, all of us trudging to work, lost in our individual worlds of headphones and conundrums about whether to go for the Ham and Pickle or Chicken Tikka sandwich at lunchtime. And there was a comforting predictability about sitting on a motionless District line train in a tunnel the other day, staring numbly at my face in the reflection of the opposite window, as I'd already read all the adverts half a dozen times.

No more opening my curtains in the morning to the sea and distant hills, no more being whisked across the city in a taxi for the price of a Ham and Pickle (or Chicken Tikka) sandwich. No more wandering the S.A.R. (or other choice Asian destinations) wide eyed and alone. But, then again, no more 60 hour working weeks, no more tedious ex-pat lager conversations and no more the ache of wishing I could see someone, knowing she was thousands of miles away.

Three DHL boxes and a large bag came back with me from Hong Kong - and distributed through them, along with various Chinese teas, chops and cut-price goods, I packed a hundred or so DVDs - so if the distinctly non-sub-tropical climate of EC1, or the prospect of the PM completely losing control of his mind and the country, or a football team disgracing itself get too much, I can hide away with another random film. And if I'm lucky, it won't feature the silhouetted shapes of Chinese cinema goers popping to the loo every now and again.

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Comments

Conundra

1: Dave (Glasgow) - 20:42:33 on Saturday 24th April 2004 (permalink)

Ta

2: Rob - 09:55:45 on Monday 26th April 2004 (permalink)

Er, or not - you decide...

3: Rob - 10:00:44 on Monday 26th April 2004 (permalink)
www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-5253,00.html

"mindless pendantry divorced from simple communication"

That's me all over.

On another note, this was predictably depressing.

4: Dave - 10:09:47 on Monday 26th April 2004 (permalink)

I know, I know. But perhaps it'll be 2-0 to Chelsea on the second leg... but of course it fucking won't though, will it?

Great picture of Claudio though.

5: Rob - 11:13:03 on Monday 26th April 2004 (permalink)

Fucking bumsticks

6: Dave - 00:27:01 on Thursday 6th May 2004 (permalink)

Couldn't have put it better myself

7: Rob - 10:40:17 on Friday 7th May 2004 (permalink)

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