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Posted on December 22 2009 by Jag @ 9:44 pm
(Turn up the volume and press the green button for a musical accompaniment to the narrative of this ending. Then fix your eyes and focus on infinity on the lights on the front of the bus for a moment.)
Route 79: Creeping through the night.
(Taken with my cameraphone in Kingsbury, London NW9.) Standards deviate. Often. And especially this year. And when they do you carry on. As you do. And you do. Neglect is an accusation often aimed at the interlocutor, but in your case it’s me who bears the burden of lacking. For you’re always there when I look over my shoulder. And never there when I’m waiting in hope. In the dark, the wet and the cold. The last twelve months have had me dreaming too much and consequently I cannot account for any, nor much, of. It. Is this how it’s destined to be now?
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Let’s hope that 2010 will last on the memory a little more than this year, and that loyalties return to those we care the most for once again. (Music is Wonderland by London-born singer/songwriter Raissa Khan-Panni, a song with which I fell in love with in the serendipitous act of being kept on-hold for far too long on the telephone to a Customer Services helpline. Click here to find the track on Spotify.)
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Route 79 Reflections on a bus journey home |
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| From London: By a British, European, 2nd-Generation Indian. Probably confused - but proud to be them all! Half of my journey to and from work is a 20-30 minute bus ride: London Bus Route 79 - between Alperton in West London and Kingsbury in North West London. I very frequently get pissed-off and frustrated waiting around in the DARK, WET and COLD - waiting for the 79 to turn up. But I have to be eternally grateful for the quality thinking time I get to myself. | ||
Happy Christmas !
Comment kindly left by Mark — December 23, 2009 @ 10:22 am
Happy Christmas Mark!
Comment kindly left by Jag — December 23, 2009 @ 9:57 pm
Excellent choice of music Jag.
I wish you and your family a Healthy and Happy New Year.
A good time to once again say thank you for your blog. Always entertaining and interesting.
Comment kindly left by Bernie — December 28, 2009 @ 8:43 am
Thanks Bernie! And likewise: wishing you and your family all the best in 2010.
Comment kindly left by Jag — January 1, 2010 @ 12:38 pm
Where has everybody gone?
Still suffering from a New Year hangover?
Come on, get posting.
You know it makes sense!
Comment kindly left by Bernie — January 27, 2010 @ 8:38 am
Hey, I love ur blog. Ru on facebook?? Thnx.
Comment kindly left by Neetu — March 25, 2010 @ 5:01 pm
May 15th … now i see the truth in the word “Epilogue”.
What has happened in your life that you no longer wish to carry this rather good, and very enjoyable journal, onward.
Very best wishes to you and your family.
Comment kindly left by Pondlife — May 15, 2010 @ 5:16 pm
Pondlife, I agree with you 100%.
Come back Jag…
Comment kindly left by Bernie — May 17, 2010 @ 12:51 pm
I miss this blog, but found that Jag is still updating flickr.com/route79 — and the pictures there are unmistakably his!
Comment kindly left by Mike — June 9, 2010 @ 11:52 am
Jag why have you given up on such a wonderful blog/site?
OK thats not my concern & yet the site is still up & running!
You sounded very mataphysical in your last post ( December last year ) . Perhaps you could just make a comment?
Tom.
Comment kindly left by Tom — July 16, 2010 @ 7:22 pm
Oh gosh please don’t let this die:-(
Comment kindly left by Happybutterfly — July 25, 2010 @ 11:25 pm