There is though a new cafe just opened on Chiswick Mall, empty at this time but looking inviting.
Patti Smith (M Train) creates cafes even when there are none. They're a space for thought - where the mind can travel. Not so easy for this to happen in a home office.
"We lived in an old stone country house on a canal that emptied in Lake Saint Clair. There were no cafes within walking distance. My one respite was the coffee machine at 7-Eleven. On Saturday morning I would rise early and walk a quarter mile to 7-Eleven and get a large black coffee and a glazed donut. They I would stop at the lot behind the fish-and-tackle store, a simple, whitewashed cement outpost. To me, it looked like Tangier, though I had never been there. I sat on the ground in the corner surrounded by low white walls, shelving real time, free to rove the smooth bridge connecting past and present. My Morocco."
Love the idea of 'shelving real time'. Real escape.
