New Church Road at Night

Took a walk up New Church Road last night to meet Em, and to see what the new flat (touchwood) looks like at night. New Church Road was interesting. I am used to walking up it during the day (last summer, going to sign on in Portslade) but this was the first time I had walked it at night.
A wide street, tall street lamps hidden among trees, houses set back across the dark deep-water strips of front gardens. The road was mostly empty of walkers. The street I shall (hopefully) live down is somewhere off New Church Road. A mixture of orange (good) and beige (bad) streetlamps.
Stood looking up at the new flat, trying to imagine it in October and winter, trying to imagine what it would be like -will be like- not living here.

After work today Em and me went down the seafront. A cup of tea on the strines, watching the dogs play, a fisherman, a man floating in the water.