Acts of Love
“Chapter 11 There was something surreal about Heathrow on Christmas day: the twinkling lights of Christmas decorations, the huge, beautiful but somehow sad Christmas tree with its plastic decorations and tinsel, its coloured lights and fake decoratively wrapped and ribboned presents piled too high under it, in the near-deserted terminal. Maybe because it was surrounded by black metal bollards with a chain linking them together. Christmas, chained in, protected against people?
Then there was the ...incredible emptiness, except for the Salvation Army band playing Christmas carols sounding more pathetic than jovial. A cluster of Hare Krishna people, shaking their tambourines and doing their little dance and usually boisterous and enthusiastic chant, lacked lustre. Even the irritating sound, ‘ping, ping, ping’, which rang constantly on every other day and night of the year rang out only occasionally over the tannoy system to bring your attention to the departure board. The ‘click, click, click’ of the small, square, metal rotating letters and numbers to announce flights and departure gates appeared to be working in slow time.MoreLess
Then there was the ...incredible emptiness, except for the Salvation Army band playing Christmas carols sounding more pathetic than jovial. A cluster of Hare Krishna people, shaking their tambourines and doing their little dance and usually boisterous and enthusiastic chant, lacked lustre. Even the irritating sound, ‘ping, ping, ping’, which rang constantly on every other day and night of the year rang out only occasionally over the tannoy system to bring your attention to the departure board. The ‘click, click, click’ of the small, square, metal rotating letters and numbers to announce flights and departure gates appeared to be working in slow time.MoreLess
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