Probably an informal market on weekend mornings, sitting and talking under the overhang, kids on scooters around the hall in the afternoons, eating standing up at midday, dog walking at dawn and skating on the ledges after dark.
After dark skaters work the granite ledges and the slope at the Ronda corner, where the paving is smooth and the stalls are gone. The sound carries, and the neighbours upstairs know all about it.
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Dog owners do a lap or two of the market block early, before the delivery vans and the stalls take the pavement. The Manso side is the quiet one, and that is where they stop to talk.
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On Saturdays people carry something out from the counters to the ledge by the Borrell doors and eat it standing, bags between their feet, rather than sit down anywhere.
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The flat ring of paving around the hall is the scooter and bike loop for kids coming out of school; parents stand at the corners and let them go round and round the building.
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Older neighbours park their shopping trolleys at the benches on the Tamarit side and sit out the mid-morning there, in the shade of the overhang, before walking home.
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Sunday mornings the stalls ring the hall: second-hand books and comics on the Urgell side, coins and football stickers at the Ronda corner, where collectors stand swapping their doubles. By two it is all packed away.
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