Three Things

A little girl in a navy blue uniform plays in the shadows down a lane between the railwaya nd a block of flats. She hangs off the grill fencing close to a line of parked vehicles - a couple of VW camper vans, an ice cream van and a car with its front end stripped.

The man next to me on the train reads the 2005 Yearbook for Jehovah's Witnesses. A small book printed on shiny paper with those illustrations that fill a bottom corner and are printed right up to the edge. Opposite him is a builder with his sweatshirt tied around his waist, his teeshirt slogan reads real tits fake tits who cares? they all taste the same.

Two tiny boys play footabll against the doors of some garages. A plastic multicoloured tricycle abandoned to one side.