The guitar guy has been around forever. His musicianship is undeniably terrible but I've never heard him being abusive. Is this a new development? He's always seemed harmless to me.

He disappeared from Honor Oak for a bit once. I felt strangely concerned when I spotted him in the West End looking lost and vulnerable. It was almost a relief to see him again, muttering and strumming away ineptly, back on his old turf where he was less likely to get beaten up or exploited.

Most local people's attitude to him seems to be one of wry eyebrow-raising amusement. Maybe that actually says something positive about the neighbourhood?

There but for the grace of god and all that stuff...