Rivers of London

tripped

Witness

It’s important not to rush the good things in life.

turned the key in the ignition and took a moment to savour the sound of the engine

City of Westminster Magistrates Court is around the back of Victoria Station on the Horseferry Road. It’s a bland box of a building built in the 1970s; it was considered to be so lacking in architectural merit that there was talk of listing it so that it could be preserved for posterity as an awful warning. Inside, the waiting areas maintained the unique combination of cramped busyness and barren inhumanity that was the glory of British architecture in the second half of the twentieth century.

Horace Pitman’s Legends of the Thames Valley

the rhythmic hissing sound I’d heard earlier.

rhythmic hissing sound

There’s nothing like excruciating pain for waking you up

being uselessly stoic