Tuesday 28 May 2013

The Time Traveller on Brighton Beach

On the beach yesterday with Al and Claire. There is a man silhouetted on the horizon, talking with one or two other people. They seem a quite normal group of middle aged people. The silhouetted man is saying that he has 'been here before of course, about a 150 years ago'. This is said in a quite reasonable tone of voice. So reasonable in fact that I strain to listen to more of the Brighton beach time traveller; 'I've got some photographs. It was very different then'. I wish I had gone over and asked to see the photographs, but I suppose he didn't have them with him. Maybe he left them behind in 1862.