http://www.iludicrous.co.uk

I, LUDICROUS

A mere 30 seconds walk from the office block in which I found myself yesterday and I was standing opposite Hacky's Wine Bar. Hacky's has not really kept up with the times. The front of the building offers us two telephone numbers - one prefixed 01 and one prefixed 081. Both long superceded by 0208 during the back end of the last century. I was tempted to wander in for a cocktail, or similar, but no. Overall-clad tradesmen visible through the plate glass windows and handwritten scrawl on a small piece of papaer sellotaped to said window confirmed that Hacky's was closed and that in its place a "Thai restaurant" would be "open soon." How soon wasn't clear and whether it will remain Hacky's Wine Bar was also unclear (but, I guess, unlikely). Before long Hacky's Wine Bar may be no more, the I, Ludicrous song being the only reminder of the goings on at 13-17 Station Rd., Croydon.

And what of Hacky? He was last seen running a betting shop.

Jeff Higgott 30 November 2001