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I walked alone through what I thought was a vast tunnel with spotlights swaying, and spooky sounds, not knowing what was going to happen. I stopped for a while and stood at the edge and watched as UFOs flew above me.

This was at the Barbican, the United Visual Artists: Momentum exhibition at the Curve.

I visited the Museum of London after that and walked through a section that pretended to be the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, and it was there that I met a girl with antlers. I had been reading The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There earlier and suspect the deer-girl had slipped through from there.

I ate a Dairy Milk Ritz on my way home, which combined ritz biscuits with dairy milk.

I passed houses which were pink and blue. Were they always? I couldn't say. I had spent two days at home with a hurt shoulder and the outside world seemed suddenly confusing and exotic.

I had been reading Russell Hoban's The Trokeville Way, which delighted me. I imagined myself standing on the brudge (bridge with a grudge) and l looked on the map for Tinker's Lane, where the main protagonist lived in Richmond, and also for Castleford Road. There's not one in Richmond, but there is a Richmond Street in Castleford.

"It's got mystery, that music, it's got magic - it takes you out of the everyday sameness into a place where anything can happen."

Earlier that day, I ate an avocado and pistachio cupcake with bright green icing.