Found this in my drafts from a few years ago – must have been riding on the crest of a wave, or kissing the cotton clouds.

“The thing is love, right…”

… but we have already made it clear that we’re not interested in idle conversation, and begin rigorously counting our pocket change in a bid not to make eye contact with the two cackling, bucket hat sporting 50-somethings in front of us.

“I swear we haven’t budged in 15 minutes”

“Yeah we have, we were back where those bins are before”

“I only want a beer..”

“Let’s just get one inside”

I would love to have five minutes with The Stone Roses. Five minutes is all I would need to grab and shake them and ask them how? Where does it come from? The mindset, from such a young age, that solidarity with Paris, taking cognizance of surroundings and movement. It’s not conventional – one would think – but there it is; boastful, unapologetic – and yet refined.