PEGASUS DESCENDING

...awake in the small hours again, thought this’d ended, that I’d be spared these times since the trial’s been over...
...read a couple of chapters of James Lee Burke’s Pegasus Descending I’d bought the day previous from a small shop just off a corner of Cotham Hill...
...fell asleep a couple of hours, got up and out of bed half seven, washed, drank a coffee, out the flat half eight and walked to Charlotte Keele to collect a rolling prescription for sumatriptan...
...originally planned to catch a bus from Stapleton Road but instead decided to walk back along the Frome, left of the new carpark on the edge of Broadmead, to a medium Estima from the drip in Starbucks on the Haymarket...
...up to Greggs on the third floor of the Galleries and bought two cheese and onion pasties I ate leaning against the rail facing Robert Dyas from across the walkway...
...through Waterstones to the toilet in St. Nick’s market...
...down Corn Street, over the crossing by Gusto’s on Baldwin, across the centre, fountains barely dribbling, up onto College Green, into the library to return two DVDs, one of William Burroughs and Co, the other A Kind Of Loving starring Alan Bates...
...up Park Street and a double espresso in Nero’s at the top...
...into the museum and a sit down...
...work, late shift...