A flatscreen television stands out on waste ground, it’s flex trailing through the grass like an escaped dog. Fairly recent technology already consigned to the municipal archive that is the recycling plant. 

‘Seasonal Greetings’ – Waterloo Station

Passing nocturnal spillage on platform 19, now dressed in a white cleaning agent not unlike snow. A can of Special Brew stands on a nearby bench as evidence. Further down the line, a hurried worker at a coffee chain accidently spills (and sprays) a fountain of liquid hot chocolate from behind the counter. Such is the pressure to deliver that the first course of action is to clean up, not treat his hands. A time of giving…