Don't Say It!

Betsy still off school. She got up and got ready but she looked so awful that I made her stay home.

I took Al to EH and had a meeting there with them regarding Year 6. They are such an amazing bunch of people, I am so glad we found them.

Afterwards I went shopping in Hammersmith. I worked there for many years and have a lot of happy, drunken, crazy, terrible and traffic related memories of the place. Shelly's isn't there any more (there was a time in my life when I would have happily bought every pair of shoes in Shelley's if I could have afforded to) and it's very much more gentrified than it was in my time. There is a pedestrianised part, and a sort of Piazza vibe where my friend Dawn was once mugged in broad daylight, and there is a huge H&M where there once was a shop called Krisp that sold cheap clothes that were highly flammable, and so synthetic that everything in there gave you electric shocks and made you sweat buckets.

The huge Primark was there in my time but that was before Primark did fashion - back then it was cheap, nasty, old fashioned, and the only reason you would go there would be if you were desperate for something entirely bland like a pair of black socks. They even have a Tiger now. Even the charity shops are gentrified; I saw a pair of cheap H&M sunglasses (approx £2 when new) on sale for £7.50. They were caked in grime with a scratch on one lens. But lots of charity shops are like that now. I dressed almost exclusively from the Red Cross and Oxfam shop when I was a student but I doubt today's students could afford to.

Anyway, I saw this sign and had to share it with Betsy, a theatrical bunny, cos it made me laugh.