As I am disengaging from work and wandering around Little India, I am viewing small retailers working from their shops. There are less restaurants than I remember, these seem to be replaced with general traders and fabric shops. It has been a while since I was in Little India, whilst the changes are not great, they are subtle in the post-covid economic slow-down.

My mind is momentarily slipping from all the issues I face at my toxic workplace and on to my surroundings. I am loving this, in a few years I will be semi-retired and working part-time, now putting minimal effort into battling the toxic work environment and just doing my work and then heading home.

I am looking at tailors sitting at their machines sewing brightly coloured fabrics on the sidewalk. I watch them work for a while, these guys are busy creating custom garments for their clients. I love watching their ingenuity and skills at work, whilst I missed the measuring, I am seeing their machine sewing skills in action. For me, this is pretty interesting. Whilst these guys may not be designers, they take someone else’s design prowess and turn this into a garment.