And speaking of flaneuses, I see that Deborah Moggach is back in the news: new book and newly single.
I remember a time when her Who’s Who entry listed one of her recreations as ‘walking around London looking in people’s windows.’ This sounds so much more fun that just ‘walking.’ This is as close as I can get to a picture of her walking:
I did once walk with her for several hundred yards, maybe half a mile, around central London, near Oxford Circus, as we looked for a place to have lunch. We didn’t look in any people’s windows, and at the time I didn’t know this was one of her recreations, but I certainly would have given half a chance.
