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Feb. 28th, 2013
100 London things: 98
Feb. 28th, 2013 01:11 pmI've done some arches already: the railway kind, Admiralty Arch, and the quondam Euston Arch which there are plans to rebuild, but there are still some that I haven't yet touched on.
Besides, that is, the iconic Marble Arch, standing more or less on the site of the Tyburn Tree (not its original location, I note, taking down arches and putting them up somewhere else a bit of a theme, perchance);
there is the Wellington Arch at the other end of Park Lane, also moved, for reasons to do with traffic flow, and denuded of what was apparently a hideous giant crowning statue of the Iron Duke. For quite some time it served as London's smallest police station (awwwwww), which had a resident cat, called Snooks (even more awwwwwwwwww).
I see that I recorded that there are rather splendid views.
Archway, however, is actually a road bridge.
(Yes, I know the song below is not about these sorts of arches.)
Dream dream dream dream dream
Feb. 28th, 2013 08:59 pmI find it odd the people from one's life who feature in dreams, whether in good or bad contexts, and whether it Means Anything.
(Those dreams in which I am back at school/university seldom if ever feature anyone who was there at the time, though I suppose part of the disturbing nature of those dreams is that it's me now then.)
I have occasional dreams about Q, and they are very much about now and the existence of that painful rupture, but sometimes they are about anger and sometimes they are about some kind of tentative rapprochement (e.g. the one I had last night, whence these thoughts).
But there are other people who don't seem to get dreamt about, and others who do.
It just slightly annoys me that there is still something, some emotional tie, that means Q is still this occasional part of my dream life.
I'm not sure the friendship would have endured, even absent the circumstances in which it broke, and I think I've moved in certain directions (that I consider A Good Thing) that I might not have if it had survived.