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… from\u00a0 the Porte de Halle tonight for a change. It’s only 5kms and the exercise will do me good. But halfway along the road and feeling thirsty I came across a Carrefour mini-supermarket where I could buy something, but the manager was busy putting away all of the stuff that was on the pavement (and presumably attracting a tax charge)
“Am I too late?” I enquired, a little out of breath;
He looked at his watch
“Well, as a matter of fact you are, but so what?” and he stood aside to let me, and a couple of other passers-by, into the shop.<\/p>\n

As you might have guessed, the shop manager was not a Belgian but a North African, of which there are more than just a few in Brussels. Many people complain that they are “taking over” all of the small businesses in the city. And all I can say is “good luck to them” With an attitude like that, they deserve to.<\/p>\n

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Walking back from the city did however give me an opportunity to take some night photos around the Porte de Louise, something that I’ve been wanting to do for quite a few years. I was at one time working on a folder of photos of the city – in the days after I left work when I would spend days just aimlessly wandering around the city with nothing better to do, and the old Fuji Finepix and a bottle of water in an old rucksack. Ohh happy days. I really need to recover that spirit that I had (in case you are wondering, older readers of this rubbish will have worked out by now that I’m listening to Part II of Marillion’s Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra)<\/a>\"\" – a magnificent album that will always be on my top-10 playlist but the second part always makes me so depressed, especially with everything that’s going on these days)<\/p>\n

And apart from that, this morning I did a load of shopping and spent a huge amount of time going through Marianne’s correspondence on her behalf, and then this afternoon I did another series of rock music programmes. I’m now a few months ahead on those, which is good news. Now I need to concentrate on the other radio programmes, especially as we will be in the studio recoding next Monday. I have to get a wiggle on.<\/p>\n

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