A la recherche du pongs perdu/Remember it for yourself wholesale

[hirez]

For reasons currently unknown[1] there's a not-unpleasant miasma abroad in the office this AM. The last time I smelled anything like that, it was 1990 and I was hacking on Turbo Pascal for Windows in a third floor maisonette that overlooked Golder's Green tube depot.

Great wedges of that adventure are falling out of long-term memory unbidden. It's, um, interesting.





[1] I'm not about to engage in a Reeves&Mortimer style wander about sniffing things mission.

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[inbetween-girl.livejournal.com]

[1] Oh, go on. We'd so enjoy the image.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

:p

Not without a comedy frying-pan.

(Highgate's lovely and likely not short of tastefully appointed garden flats. And indeed Highpoint.)

[inbetween-girl.livejournal.com]

You mean you don't keep one under your desk, just in case?

I know it is. I just need to persuade husband dearest that we need to move there. I can kind of understand his reluctance seeing as The Highgate Fixation was partially inspired by watching Truly Madly Deeply.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I fear not. Just coloured pencils and a Moleskine.

Do I take it you've been wandering the place, staring in through windows for signs of stripped floorboards and five-ring ranges?

[inbetween-girl.livejournal.com]

The floorboards! I love the floorboards! But recently it has been more about the hanging baskets.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Herbs in terracotta pots? Saturday Guardian sections strewn on ethnic rugs?

(I'm not helping, am I?)

[inbetween-girl.livejournal.com]

You've clearly been to my dream home.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

It's the middle-class revolt. Nice glass of Merlot?

[inbetween-girl.livejournal.com]

Will you recycle the bottle, or shall I?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

The green glass goes in the broken Riverford veg. box next to the Aga.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

That wasn't the Tubes, that was brillo pads...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

[FX: Not touching that with someone else's bargepole]

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Not even wearing a pair of Marigolds?

[quercus.livejournal.com]

...and a tie.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Or several.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Are you trying to get me to friendslock this?

[spride.livejournal.com]

Sure somebody didn't post you one of Mossy's socks?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Cripes! It's the Cricklebois mafia!

(Where is DMoss these days, anyway?)

[spride.livejournal.com]

> Cripes! It's the Cricklebois mafia!

Kentish Tahn sleeper cell, anyway. (Did I ever mention that TSB ended up in the next road to me?)

Mossy's married to JH's sister and is living as a school teacher/IT Wallah in darkest Belchamp, one village over from The Towers.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I recall some excitement when it was discovered that one domain or other was registered to an address handy for Tuffnell Park tube, which was one street over from my walk-to-KT-dotbomb.

It was a long time ago in a different country, and I ran into the wench when I went for an interview at Virgin Net.

[spride.livejournal.com]

> It was a long time ago in a different country

Literally, for me.