Farewell to Chiswick
Soon, I'll no longer be making my weekday trips over to Chiswick. For the past four-and-a-bit years I've been coming over here Monday to Friday. I've learned every bump on the District Line from Tower Hill to Gunnersbury and recognise quite a few of the faces of the people who have an overlapping daily routine. I don't know them, of course, but the faces of a few people who travel to Chiswick Park every day are familiar to me. I didn't really know anything about Chiswick before I started work here. Years ago, when I used to play badminton regularly, I used to sometimes play at the leisure centre in Brentford after work. I didn't work over this way, but it was halfway between work and where my friend against who I played lived and so it made sense to make the trip out here. After playing, he'd quite often drop me back at Gunnersbury in the car, and then I'd take the District Line all the way back over to home in Wapping. At the time, I didn'