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On BBC 6 music in a cafe on Brick Lane, looking at lottery tickets we heard The Smashing Pumpkins which was good, but not as good as hearing it live. Our lives are forever changed, believe me. We got to thinking about Indian restaurants after digesting the lottery results.

This bloomed into the microcosm of Bengali colonisation famously found on Brick Lane today. What were once Industrial centres have now been replaced by night clubs and galleries reflecting Britain’s present industrial predicament. The central and dominating presence of the Old Truman Brewery can be traced back to the site from 1666 and expanded rapidly over the next 200 years. It was once the largest brewery in London and the second largest in Britain, meriting a mention in Charles Dickens novel ‘David Copperfield’. When eventually closing in 1988, the Old Truman Brewery site began to house businesses like restaurants and art spaces, along with many creative enterprises orbiting predominantly around Fashion, Art, Music and Media circles. Checking our lottery numbers at national lottery UK whilst tonight, tonight, came back on the radio. We realised we had won and that we would go to India on holiday.