there is an ambient hum of the machines disks and fans, low but definite, always there. Outside I can hear sounds of the traffic on the South Circular a 20 metres away from my first floor window, trucks using their airbrakes as they slow to stop before the pedestrian crossing which squeels and bleeps when its ready to be crossed. An Kango hammer is being used by the builders on Lucas St, it phases around the windows as the guy pushes into the concrete with urgent rising pulses then stops to survey his work. Outside the bookmakers downstairs I can just hear a slow conversation between the men who come outside to smoke and drink cans of cheap lager, I cant understand what they are saying but I rarely do (there are 40 first tongues in Deptford). A cockney voice on a mobile stands out (the cocktail party effect !), 'yea right....depends where you are' he says before going round the corner and into the sounds of the traffic. As the kango hammer on Lucas St stops I can just hear the shoolchildren playing and laughing at the school as they have lunchbreak, they are drowned out by the bass of a phat car stereo as a boy racer parks up before going into the island barber shop across the road, its a dancehall tune sound like 'Elephant Man' but I cant be sure.
Tanners Hill, Deptford, London
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