A Diamond Geezer

The main purpose of my visit to Soho today was to meet for the first time the delightful Patrick Dalton, the originator of the Facebook group, 'Shit London', and the author of several spin-off books from that venture. What a really lovely man he turned out to be (Phew!). We met in The Coach and Horses pub in Greek Street, haunt of journalists and writers. I wanted to thank Patrick for Shit London, which gave me hours of hilarity during my illness, when I really couldn't find much to laugh at, and for indirectly introducing me to my wonderful new family of Facebook friends I met on there, who always had me in stitches - and still do. I feel I have known them all my life.




In my initial email to Patrick I asked whether I should wear a green carnation so that he'd recognise me. But he assured me that my regular tramp's outfit would suffice.

We started off inside with our pints of bitter but as the afternoon turned to evening we moved to the tables on the street so that we could watch all the people and talk to all the passing beggars, each of whom were sent on their way with smiles and handfuls of our change.

Thanks for the great evening, Patrick! Cheers!