I was relieved that he refrained from trying to get involved in my sudden undertaking. Now and then a man from the adjacent house would come down to marvel at my prospering biceps without so much as lifting a finger himself to help. Especially when you were down there, hauling cables of bindweed that began in one corner and tapered off many solid yards later in the shady depths of another. The semis were next to each other, but separate, joined to other houses, though the gardens at the back were side by side with no boundary between them, so it was quite admissible to think of them as a single sprawling entity. I’d done a lot of work in the garden, two gardens really-the landlords owned two semis at the top of a smart tree-lined avenue. Despite owing considerable arrears on my rent I somehow assumed that I could carry on living in my high-ceilinged bedsit near the common for as long as I liked. After finishing my degree I would have liked to have stayed on in London.
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