A man alone on an uncomfortable chair outside Jamaica Blue in the Lion’s Yard shopping mall in Cambridge. Kids & Emma roaming the denser regions of the retail jungle, hunting & gathering while I muse. Current topic: do they make these chairs uncomfortable so as to discourage customers from lingering over their Wallingford Estate Jamaica Blue Coffees? Subsequent topic: through my reading glasses the passing crowds look like polychromatic ghosts, their colours smudged against blurred light. Through the haze I hear three languages in swift succession – Mandarin, Arabic & Spanish. Now my deliverance comes – the girls have benefitted the Accessorise shareholders to the tune of several quid and we’re off…
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