Last weekend coming up. A number of anniversaries this week. Yesterday the queen's ninetieth birthday. Tomorrow Shakespeare's birthday, as well as the four hundredth anniversary of his death.
Revisit the warren - a complexity of shops behind the store fronts at the Bayswater end of Queensway. You enter through one of two shops with carry ons or similar and one small room or narrow corridor leads to another. The shops change hands over time, tracing the waves of immigrants. Possible to buy Russian dolls, or Brazilian food, have your computer repaired or your mobile phone unlocked. A unisex Polish hairdressing establishment - signs in Polish as well as English - will cut your hair for £7 (€8.75, $12.65 CAD), compared to £25 for a shampoo and blow dry in a shop on the street outside. A watch repairman has a corner den overwhelmed by its contents - which seem to include every saleable curio that has come the watchmaker's way, Dickensian surfeit.