What have you been up to this time Nightie?

Douchebags in 'supercars' racing up and down Abbey Road, junkies fixing up by the bins, huge groups of people having al fresco meals at one of the 400 Middle Eastern restaurants on the corner of AR and BR.

The car park at the hotel appears to be completely full.

That has made me stressed out and worried about tonight.

I walked round the hotel just now and I found that there were 38 empty parking spaces on the far side. Admittedly, about 10 of those were at the very far end where all the empty takeaway bags are, and where a lorry would probably block you in, but that still left 28 perfectly good spaces.

And yet by the entrance people are parked all on the kerb and the yellow box grids.

I can think of 2 possible explanations:

1. Lots of people arrived yesterday evening while the restaurant was busy with local custom. I of course know better than to do that

2. These people are just bone idle

The people over the road, with the football flag, have had their front garden/drive all dug up.

And now a huge lorry with a grabber is loading up all the rubble.

Four shirtless young men are hard at work levelling hardcore and mixing concrete.

This neighbourhood has evidently accelerated its slide downmarket. There's a group of people on one of the terraces, clearly drunk, repeatedly singing the only lines anyone knows to Viva Espana. Those being 'Viva Espana', and 'Espana por favor' - complete with clapping and cheering. On and on. It must be an Air B&B type invasion. Additionally, separately, the peace has been disturbed by no less than four police visits over the course of the day - it could be more, those were just the events featuring sirens and the sound of tyres on Tarmac.

There are two emergency ambulances in the street outside.

But they don't seem to be for the same house.

Internet connection annoyances rage probably.

I've just 'nipped' to the shops - normally a 10 minute long return journey by foot - only to find that there's been a stabbing on Abbey Road and the police have completely cordoned the street off, meaning that, what with the train lines, I had to take a tortuous round-the-houses route.

40 minutes it took.

The cashier in Sainsbur said that the injuries weren't life-threatening.

Rowley Way.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/boy-stabbed-hendon-london-brent-street-b977883.html

How could such a heinous crime be committed at such a genteel location?



I s'pose they don't call it Brutalism for nowt.

I blame Richard and Linda Thompson.

Nightjar wrote:

How could such a heinous crime be committed at such a genteel location?



I s'pose they don't call it Brutalism for nowt.

I was watching a documentary about that place, the other night.

Having once seen it in an episode of Primeval.

Here's an UPDATED detailed plan of this evening's entire stabbed child inconvenience...