Since I’d looked round a little bit in Brick Lane and found a whole load of property yesterday, I thought I should go and have another look tonight after training. It ended up pretty late and I felt a little bit like I deserved to be mugged wandering around alone in East London looking gormlessly at derelict buildings. Luckily though, I didn’t get mugged and even better I think I managed to convince someone who asked me for directions that I wanted to mug him. Yesssssss score one for the sprunty threaten-o-meter.

That would have been good enough for me, but I got an added bonus in thatI think I’ve found the perfect property. There are some damn nice places on Brick Lane itself, but I have a sneaking suspicion that they’ll be too expensive for me so today I walked a little further than I did last time hoping to find something a little more scuzzy. Down at the end of the road is this tiny little shop with what looks like a sort of burnt out shell that used to be an appartment up above it. The whole thing looks like it would have been really tacky and awful about 30 years and since then people have left it alone except for the tramps who occasionally come in to break the windows, burn stuff and then piss in the corner. It has a “to let” sign above it, but clearly no one has ever wanted the building because it was so faded I couldn’t read the number to call on it or anything. Hopefully the estate agent next door will know who’s it is, maybe they’re letting it, they certainly look run-down enough. Going to have to go back on Saturday to take a look round during the day when the agents’ll be open.

I just had to leave the best thing about the shop to last… it used to sell porn.