17.15 and I ‘ve come early to the roof. I ‘ve been hunting for my 1999 four seasons sleeping bag with a volcanic orange interior to go with the trip I took to the seismic landscape of Iceland and I can’t find it anywhere. I ‘ve come up here with a budget one from The Range bought when we were ‘forced to camp’ one summer

Is it night 2? It’s 16.00 on Saturday 19th November and it’s getting dark so that counts as night falling.

Seagulls are reeling and flocking - heading towards their urban cliffs – where do they sleep? The lights on the top of the HSCB tower of docklands are visibly flashing now.

The crowdfunder goes live. We scrabble around to make sure rewards are set up. We sort out a good tea and I warn Dan he’s perhaps drinking too much wine for rooftop sleeping.

I needed to sort safe passage up. The velux window exit up and over the south facing rooftiles was not going to cut it.