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28 June 2012
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I was walking through central London last week on my way to a meeting with a GCSE board. I stopped to buy a ‘Big Issue’ and had a chat with the effusive seller (I have mostly found that ‘Big Issue’ sellers in a city humanise the space around them. Those outside regular society sometimes seem more human than the rest of us, pushing past one another trying to make a deadline).
We swapped names and then he asked me what I was doing. I told him I was a Methodist minister but was in London doing a bit of part time work as a GCSE examiner.
‘You? A minister! No way man! You don’t look like one. You are way too cool!’
I tell you; that made my day….
had to smile and chuckle at that – wonderful. When I was in London the Big Issue sellar at Knigs Cross translated some work for me when I was going to Brazil. Taught me a few phrases too. Then he was beaten up one evening and his daily money taken and moved somewhere else.
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