Friday, November 2/2012
Back along Queensway. Scarves, mugs, and souvenirs for sale outside the shops. Luggage on display, phone unlocking, currency exchanges. fish pedicures £10. And the restaurants. The bronze coloured chickens hanging in the window of The New Fortune Cookie. The same ones as last year? My favourite sign reads Brazilian Buffet by Kilo - modern cuisine at its best. This in a warren of shops and cafés with signs in Polish, Arabic and Russian. The hair stylist advertises cuts at £7 under the name of Polscy Fryzjerzy. Odds are the sign was designed by a Russian, as the first word should be "Polski" but the Russian alphabet lacks a k. Café Albroush promises traditional Sudanese food and Sam's Gold & Silver offers to sell, buy and repair, just across from the Psychic Mews.
Outside, the Catholic church, Our Lady Queen of Heaven, requests that rubbish not be dumped behind its iron railings, as well as giving Brazilian Mass times. And on the other side of the road caftans from the middle east are on offer near London's Only Ice Rink and Bowl. J has picked up a Metro at the tube station as I potter along the road and he takes it across the Bayswater Road to a bench in Hyde Park to read. I join him, passing the little black three wheeled truck selling coffee on the sidewalk - "not just coffee it's London's finest." The sign says "not for profit" and indeed the café Americano is only £1.
In the afternoon out to West Harrow to see Jean and enjoy a delicious mutton curry. Time for a visit before Shanthi arrives to share the meal and get caught up. then Priya joins us after her evening class - delighted because she has just sold a £1000 Calvin Klein watch at her part time job, and made her November quota on the second day.
Back along Queensway. Scarves, mugs, and souvenirs for sale outside the shops. Luggage on display, phone unlocking, currency exchanges. fish pedicures £10. And the restaurants. The bronze coloured chickens hanging in the window of The New Fortune Cookie. The same ones as last year? My favourite sign reads Brazilian Buffet by Kilo - modern cuisine at its best. This in a warren of shops and cafés with signs in Polish, Arabic and Russian. The hair stylist advertises cuts at £7 under the name of Polscy Fryzjerzy. Odds are the sign was designed by a Russian, as the first word should be "Polski" but the Russian alphabet lacks a k. Café Albroush promises traditional Sudanese food and Sam's Gold & Silver offers to sell, buy and repair, just across from the Psychic Mews.
Outside, the Catholic church, Our Lady Queen of Heaven, requests that rubbish not be dumped behind its iron railings, as well as giving Brazilian Mass times. And on the other side of the road caftans from the middle east are on offer near London's Only Ice Rink and Bowl. J has picked up a Metro at the tube station as I potter along the road and he takes it across the Bayswater Road to a bench in Hyde Park to read. I join him, passing the little black three wheeled truck selling coffee on the sidewalk - "not just coffee it's London's finest." The sign says "not for profit" and indeed the café Americano is only £1.
In the afternoon out to West Harrow to see Jean and enjoy a delicious mutton curry. Time for a visit before Shanthi arrives to share the meal and get caught up. then Priya joins us after her evening class - delighted because she has just sold a £1000 Calvin Klein watch at her part time job, and made her November quota on the second day.
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