Today I am going to B&Q in Eltham

To buy some paint & a curtain rail.

I will traverse the south circular, passing the Yorkshire Grey, where Blood & Honour hastily re-arranged a white power festival after the infamous 'Battle Of Waterloo'. It is now a McDonalds.



#psychogeography

I'm a big fan of McDonalds's on the outskirts of cities. Especially mock tudor ones!

I am back from Eltham, where I accidentally walked past the home (it had one of those blue plaques outside) of Richard Jefferies, the Victorian author of After London, a proto Ballardian dytopia where London drowns & the survivors revert to an agrarian lifestyle.

Check out this beauty of a McDonalds in Southhall.  





Took the picture myself although sadly I didn't go in because I was with Richard and he's a big poof vegan

Moving into a new flat always necessitates these journeys to exurbia doesn't it?  As rented flats in Canada are usually unfurnished, I had to make multiple trips to the IKEA which is literally at the edge of the city (near the gas station where Rob Ford was photographed doing drug deals).  There were also many journeys to my local retail park, which is in this sortof inner suburban postindustrial district.  All my needs are satiated there: Home Depot for paint, Blinds-to-go for Blinds, Staples for office supplies and Canadian Tire for tools.

There is this cool shipping terminal there too, note the font where it says 'Keele Centre':