"We have a waiting list of people who'd like to take over this space if we ever leave".
Hilly and I plan to return to the jungle over the course of the project -- that is, if we ever leave.
"Then my friend Jeanette was here and she saw a shadowy image of a girl about 14 wearing a blue dress, with a man in a long black suit, maybe her father or brother?" Another time, "Frank and I were in the keeping room having something to eat, and I was saying to him, 'You know, if we ever leave this house' and all of a sudden the door slammed, hard.
But the folks at Placemeter believe that, one day, we'll also check to see how crowded or traffic-filled our intended destination is before we ever leave the house.
Did we ever leave some children behind or what?" Or, "Sorry about all the looting.
Before we ever leave town, we've mapped out a route, researched the history of the places on our itinerary, scoured local events, and dug around for potentially interesting destinations along the way.
But as the walk finishes a darker horizon looms, and the close of Walking Home works like a perfect Simon Armitage poem: we are all picked up and turned about without quite realising we'd ever left the world we thought we knew.
We have been subscribers for eight years and this is the first time we've ever left.
"Then we got letters saying we were leaving stuff out in the hall, and it was a fire hazard, but the only thing we'd ever left out was an umbrella once when it was raining.
And the rest of us, all we're ever left with is the sound of strangers pointing... and laughing.
