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I tried to draw a picture of him but the face was all wrong.
In my first job in London in the late 80’s one of my tasks was the responsibility for letting out a large skanky hall on the Lisson Green Estate. Feargal would occasionally use it for his radio ham group on Saturdays.
The place was constantly broken into and vandalised. One Friday Feargal came in to get the key for the hall, and I had to say he couldn’t use it because the doors were broken after a burglary and we’d had to board it up etc. I had no telephone number to let him know earlier. I never forget the crestfallen look on his face, nearly in tears. He said, ‘yes but I’ve got radio hams coming from all over the country and from Europe’.
A few minutes later, I think, prompted by his despair, I thought of an imaginative solution to the problem, and ran out onto the street looking for him, but he’d gone.
He never asked to use the hall again.
So well done that's a real victory for the 'interesting,desperate funsters' get rid of an independent store with stuff you've never eaten and welcome the chain outlet with open arms! Something to think about when you've moved on to another investment in a nicer bit of town or returned to the shires.
I find it hard to mourn the passing of a shop that once sold me a salad with a fully grown slug in it.
But, well done. That's the most passive aggressive post in ages.
Spoke to the charming gentleman behind the till this morning. The deal with Sainsbury is not definite ..... not at all ...... it might be happening but then it might not. And it sounded like it might not. They'll know in a couple of weeks. But it also sounded like they might close and move elsewhere (Muswell Hill was mentioned) all the same.
I presume the lease has come up for renewal.
Just popped in to grab a few of the hot cheese bread things before they disappear to be replaced by vaccum packed snack croissants. But you never know.