Dulwich.
Like many districts in London, Dulwich had a way of looking gentler in the afternoon, contrasting its moody mornings.
The community had conservative streets, an area lined and surrounded by trees and vegetation that had more seniority than the people, and the air was ideally damp, keeping the flowers blooming and their colors vibrant.
There had been a small commotion earlier in the week, when a local baker's delivery van had rolled into a prize-winning hedge on the court lane, and the neighbors were still talking about it as if it were a national scandal.
Also, a burst pipe had flooded two houses at the bottom of a hill, forcing the people to drain the water crudely before the intervention of the community Council. By then, the water had already been pushed back successfully, leaving behind scars of mud in the grass.
