

“I don’t really want to be anywhere else in London, to be perfectly honest,” says Mr Chris Johnson. He’s the landlord at [The High Cross](https://www.instagram.com/highcrosslondon/?hl=en), a pub housed in a former public convenience in Tottenham, north London, but he’s talking about the other place he works and, in fact, over the past year, has spent much of his time, his allotment. “Once you close the gate, it doesn’t matter what’s happening outside. You just focus on the plot.”

“I don’t really want to be anywhere else in London, to be perfectly honest,” says Mr Chris Johnson. He’s the landlord at The High Cross, a pub housed in a former public convenience in Tottenham, north London, but he’s talking about the other place he works and, in fact, over the past year, has spent much of his time, his allotment. “Once you close the gate, it doesn’t matter what’s happening outside. You just focus on the plot.”


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