D.O.P.-T. (Thursday)

[weofodthignen]

They've demolished a group of office buildings on Mathilda. There were single-storey white concrete buildings along the street, with a heavy overhanging cornice and plate glass windows, and set back from them a multi-storey unit. Three earthmovers have now dragged it all down and away - one night the core of the tall building was left standing like the result of a bombing, the next day even the fir trees had been snapped off - and I suppose what they are doing now is making a big hole in the ground. There is still basically a big hole in the ground across the road where two nice old houses used to stand. But every morning the three earthmovers are arrayed like a corps de ballet, with either their bent claw arms or their blue rounded cab-butts facing the street in a neat row.