Bottlers of London air
#01487
Soho basement bar, 23:50
Notes
Dense, carpeted, last orders and a warm gin.
Price
£2.99 a bottle, sealed, to any inbox.
#01487
Provenance
CaptureDrawn ten minutes before midnight, at the foot of the stairs, one floor under Dean Street.
The roomNo windows, thirty years of carpet, and a room that had been full since seven without once being aired.
The bottleIt is the heaviest bottle we keep. It does not thin out and it does not clear.
The cellar is not open yet
This bottle stands corked and cannot be dispatched today. Leave your address and we will tell you the hour it can.
Also standing
- #01482Peckham kebab shop, 02:00Wet, brief, notes of doner and regret.
- #01483Circle line eastbound, 18:40Warm, upholstered, a long finish of other people.
- #01484Camden beer garden, 15:20Ripe, sunlit, four pints deep, no apology.
- #01485Deptford market, 16:15Fishmonger's ice, wet cardboard, something turning.
- #01486Hackney towpath, 06:05Cold, silty, a duck's opinion of the morning.
Who a bottle is for
- ForSomething to send your flatmateThe shortest way to raise the matter of the washing up, sealed and delivered to their inbox.
- ForSomething to send your brotherBrothers keep a running account. A bottle settles one line of it, in ninety seconds.
- ForSomething to send a colleagueFor the colleague who microwaves fish at one, on an open-plan floor, without comment.
- ForSomething to send the group chatOne bottle, opened by one person, discussed by eleven for the rest of the week.