24. Return To The Source

The Obsessive Diary · Sep 30, 2025 · 2m

Retrieving my van from the dripping wood where I’d left it to go to Czechoslovakia, I returned to Latimer Road in West London, the house in which I’d lived before my detour to Glastonbury and snare in a ménage à trois. It was a time of parties and protests, MDMA and Reclaim The Streets, me and my split-screen camper with its twenty-one windows and a roof that slid back, a miniature sink and tiny plug under the bed, I named her Hera. In Hera I drove to derelict buildings behind King’s Cross taken over by techno, to squatted land in Wandsworth turned into a riverside farm. A girl who’d been…