Next on to the biggest demo I have taken part in, a protest about Brexit.
Spending a few days in London and walking around the area between King’s Cross and The British Museum. A walk I did almost daily for the three years I was at SOAS. Now things are changing, new shops, new buildings have appeared and there is a growing distance between me and the place I remembered. Already I have forgotten some street names and the shortcuts I used to take. But some things remain Cafe Deux Amis is still there and so is The King of Falafel, The British Museum remains solid and permanent, so large that small changes go almost unnoticed, though sitting and writing in the new Members Room I fondly remember the old one, with its shabby comfortable chairs, single work table and odd collection of books, and the even odder people that haunted the place. Now I look at the smart well-off, well-dressed coffee drinkers around me and wonder what happened to those eccentric characters who would look so out of place here but who fitted so well into the atmosphere of the old room. Next on to the biggest demo I have taken part in, a protest about Brexit.
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