how the other half sit

The youngster.had an activity in Morningside in the early evening, so after dropping him off (after an exciting bus diversion) I stumped about a bit in the rain, going past my 1997-1998 flat, Captain Grumpy's lens-O-rama (which either wasn't there or was off my radar back then) and the aspirational furnishing shops, which seem to have changed very little.