Just a quick one...

Just a quick note, because I am running short of time (one of the downsides to limiting internet time to 1 hour for 50p a day... the upside being that I actually do other stuff besides sitting in front of a screen for hours sinking deeper into cyberspace).

I finally paid my rent. My landlady responded by sending an SMS that she was going to get someone to come around and measure the front door of the flat for a new door sometime next week. Mostly good. There is a chance that I might have a new job by then, but if that happens one of the other chaps in the flat might be able to field it.

The local urchins are back at school, which is good.

I walked past the rear courtyard about a week ago and two local kids were wrestling violently while other kids hit them with belts and lanyards. I'm gambling that the local kids think that I'm scary enough not to mess with. Someone did say a couple of weeks ago that when I'm not dressed up for work I do look rough. Maybe I just look like a different kind of rough to the locals. That can be enough of a deterrant.

Still Leytonstone seems to be a safe enough area. I haven't actually seen that much trouble since I've been here, and none of it has affected me negatively.

In any case, so nearly out of time.

Over and out.