RANDOM ECHOES - 29/9/05

Most people can't walk straight, let alone talk straight - I say give Walter Wolfgang a loudhaler.

Chambers Wharf and Cold Store waiting to be converted into another glass and steel condominium (didn't all this start with Thatcher? It hasn't stopped. 20 years of yuppie appropriation of the river front, the traders oversee the trade route). Even outside the row of late night grocery shops, the launderette, the mock Italian restaurant in Bermondsey a 'genteel' piazza is being built, just off Jamaica Road. It consists of approx 20 chrome poles and lights that will illuminate the area at night and a number of steel benches ergonomically designed. This for relief of whom? For what? For the congregation of bigots I've seen abusing the Turkish guys that run the 24 hour shops? For the hoodies? Give it two years before they dig it up and concrete over it and leave it as it was.

Pale ghost beech tree Butler's Wharf before giant screen of storm and hurricane imagery.