You part of this lot?

As those who read my blog and Steve McAlpine’s will know, we’ve been spending some time with ‘the street drinkers’ down London Road, a road 2 minutes walk from my house. Recently they were featured in the local area news letter, the upshot being that people were happy for them to drink, as long as they could do it out of sight…well, that was my reading of it anyway.

Today I popped down and had a great chat with Pete again. Hopefully he’ll be coming to our meeting tomorrow where we’ll be having our first baptism!

While we were talking a police car pulled up. The copper gave us a glare and then got out. It turns out that he’s the new bobby for this area (and his name is Bob!) and he wanted to make his mark.

He wanted to lay down the law, so to speak, and to find out people’s names. He looked at me and said ‘You’re not one of this lot?’