Kentish Town Farm

We went to pick up Maisie from the farm. We bring Evil because as she is dying we bring her with us whenever possible. Maisie is still volunteering at the farm. She has had a lovely time mucking out the cow. Someone shot the pigs which is a plus because mucking out the pigs is a bit hardcore. It just shows, though how very rough Kentish Town is, they even shoot pigs. I am very glad that Maisie is not in a gang. We pick Maisie up and she is wearing her Abercrombie and Fitch top. She has her Ipad in her bag and she is BBM-ing on her Blackberry, young people are constantly networking.
"Are you OK?" I ask Maisie. "You look a bit pale." Maisie has dark rings around her eyes. I think she may be mourning the pigs.
"I'm fine," she says, "but I haven't had a thing to eat since brunch yesterday, I am so hungry."
Yesterday we were at Abigail's to celebrate her birthday. after John and I left Maisie and Abigail and Ben went to the zoo.
"Didn't you eat anything at all at the zoo?" I ask Maisie. "Nothing at all?"
"No." says Maisie. "We saw the pygmy hippopotamuses, and the camels but we forgot to eat."
"Breakfast?" I ask.
"No." Says Maisie.
Maisie is very very hungry so we repair to the Grafton Pub in Kentish Town. I am a bit worried because people in Kentish Town are a bit trigger happy.
We duck into the Grafton pub and order lots of food for Maisie. We order Sunday lunch and we feed Evil under the table.
I get a text from Ellis. It says "Ann and Bin are coming for supper, do you want to come?"
"Do we have to go?" Says John. I can't do any more socialising." John does lots of socialising.
"Yes, you do," says Maisie, passing some chicken to Evil under the table.
"Why?"Says John.
"Because, says Maisie, "She doesn't want to cook any more."
"O" says John.
I text Ellis back. I'm not sure that Ellis will get my text because texting is not his thing. "We'll come." I say "but after 6.30." We have to visit Terese at 6.00 because she is an artist and she has agreed to take Maisie for work experience.
After lunch we decide to take Evil for a walk on the Heath. We park in Savernake Road where Fran and Bill used to live. It is very sad to be back in Savernake Road. We walk up the road and cross the footbridge and then we are on the Heath.
Evil loves the Heath. She chases a squirrel, she runs up the hill. She stops to do a pooh. She does a pooh which is so runny that it is impossible to pick up with my pooh bags. She runs a bit more and we walk towards Parliament Hill.
"You are puffing." Maisie tells John.
"I am not." Says John.
"You are," says Maisie, "you are very unfit."
Evil does another pooh which is liquid, then she takes off and chases a crow.
"That dog is pushing her luck."Says John. "If she carries on like that she'll drop dead."
Maisie gives John an old fashioned look.
John is non-plussed.
Later we go to Terese's house. Terese lives in a beautiful house in Highbury. Terese is an artist. Her mother is 95 and she's dying in UCH.
"UCH is amazing," says Terese. "The care is extraordinarily good, if you are ever dying at 95, UCH is the place to be."
I try to imagine dying at 95 and I fail.
Terese says that Maisie can do silk screen printing for work experience. She says that they will sort cards and make a T shirt and look at design. Maisie is very very happy.