Thursday 15th June 2023

Alarm at 0730...dozed to the radio until 0810. Got up and porridged. Put a packed lunch together then headed for Abbey Wood. Found Leon waiting for me under the road bridge on the north side of the station. Hadn't seen him since working with him on internal inspections in east London in the New Year...he'd developed dreadlocks! Drove back to the estate that Zeke and I had been working on last week, and began where we'd left off. Some very grim units...one bloke let me into an upper maisonette, which had barely any furniture, a girlfriend spark out in an armchair, and children's crayon drawings over every inch of lower wall space! I didn't hang about! Another hot day...soon got sweaty. We repaired to Sainsburys to use the facilities and get some lunch. Ate in the car in the under-croft car park. Ended the day in west Thamesmead...on a small development of slightly unusual terraced houses built c2000 of timber framed construction beneath vari-pitched tiled roofs with integral solar panelling. They didn't look too good inside, though....most of the units I got into still had the original kitchens in, which were beginning to fall apart. Dropped Leon off at Woolwich Arsenal station, and drove home. Dreadful traffic jams in Finsbury Park, so didn't get home until 1930. Aki had cooked an aubergine parmigiana lasagne for dinner. Watched a bit of telly...very moving scenes on the News at a mass vigil in Market Square in Nottingham for the students murdered a couple of nights ago. bath and bed...