Everyone at Atakan Market
The Tailor and his wife
Late night watermelon
Star Trek til wee hours
Midnight Mitzvah man
The fountain of the naked woman
Flowers in the park
Snow Day!
Christmas 2007-8
The Christmas Tree Debacle
Beep Beep
Baths with candles
Rose's Cafe for Sunday brunch
Pizza on Demand
3 o'clock school run from West Green Primary School
Turkish food from the wonderful people at Istambul
Mario the mechanic: a hello every day
the 341 to Islington
Black Boy Lane
The Imperial House of Prayer
The nice man at the newsagent
Chicken and Chips man
Damian
Living here has changed my beliefs — it changed the way I feel about myself and my community. And it's a glorious feeling. Having lived in Tottenham is not a stain, it's a badge of honor. I believe that living here has helped me to truly see the world.
It is a rough neighborhood, but the thing about Tottenham is this: it is a place where overall, I have found people look out for and after one another. If you can live in Tottenham, you can live anywhere, so they say, and it though at times it has been comically tough, rough, and just plain odd, this has been home, and I have loved it. Tomorrow, when I say I once lived in Tottenham, I shall stand up straight. This was home, and in my memory, it always shall be.
Thank you 7 Olive Grove, for two and a half wonderful years.
I shall never forget you.
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ReplyDeleteVery touching. Change in the air, obviously, so the best of luck.
ReplyDeletewhere are you!!! call me!!! xx
ReplyDeletei was brought up there, and look how posh i am!
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ReplyDeleteHope all is well with your preparations. It seems that it is written in your stars for this to be a time of great journeys, preceded byngreat anticipation and anxiety. But as a director I once worked for said after overcoming a perfect storm of mishaps before premiering a new play, if you take a risk and go into the unknown the rewards are ten times as great. And as another acquaintance once told me, fortune favors the brave.
ReplyDelete...But I think maybe you already know that..?