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Stonehedge-
Ha ha, yeah exactly.
Apart from a brief shift of allegiance to Andy’s in Brixton (also Cypriot diaspora) Deniz has been cutting my hair since I was a nipper. His dad used to cut my dad’s hair.
We’re growing old together.Although I stopped going for a while during the Brexit crescendo - we were probably going to come to blows.
He’s an infuriating reactionary git at times but ...a good barber.
He’s doing another Ironman this year so no politics talk.
absurdbird
Yeah. Fucking awful.
My sister was at school with someone who died in that fire.
I actually walked past the house this morning on my way to the barbers.
😕
Whether it was started deliberately by racists or not is now kind of irrelevant, everyone at the time was sure it was the NF, they’d already firebombed the Moonshot club in NewX.
There were a lot of positive things happening as well back then though, community action, festivals, arts etc.