We refer to him as the ‘smoking hippie’. He wakes early and can be seen having his first cigarette on one of the benches in one of the far corners of the Quad. In the afternoon he moves to one of the new wooden tables and benches that have placed in the middle of the Quad. He always has a large set of headphones clamped to his ears as he smokes, while, as his usual wont, he reads his phone. Yesterday afternoon he was sitting on the new bench as per but this time he was sanding and smoothing down a newly formed shell of an acoustic guitar. Is he a make of guitars then? How lovely. I love seeing evidence of the continuing existence of hand-made crafts. It fits with him too. Though surely he doesn’t have a workshop here in his flat. Does he? I did hear a mechanical saw grinding a few days ago and did wonder if it was him. Conundrum solved, though, as they say, questions remain.
