Ski hats and milk floats

Another evening walk seen through my eyes...

Through a gap in the trees the last of the days light silhouettes grandiose gravestones. To the left the water tower silhouetted providing the juxtaposition between sustaining life and the ones now past.

Freshly painted yellow lines contrast heavily against the worn road surface. Minutes later a motorbike pulls up roaring like a lion half asleep followed closely behind by a moped with a barely audible putting sound. It feels like a lesson for pre-schoolers; New vs old, noisy vs quiet.

A traditional wooden sash window is closed shut providing the most satisfying noise especially when compared to the thunk of a modern PVc window.

A man riding a bike on the cycle path has to duck last minute when he realises he's either going to be eating a mouthful of foliage or more likely the tree is about to eat him.

A motorbike's back lights have two horizontal red lights and a white light beneath curled down at each side. The smaller it gets in view the more it resembles an angry sad face.

A low black car with classic go faster stripes looking like it was plucked from the late 80s / early 90s guns its way around a corner like an unwelcome uncle at Christmas dinner. The sound isn't marrying to the speed of the car as it goes past either, like you're watching the motoring equivalent of a badly dubbed Kung Fu movie made in the same period.

A flatbed truck drives past laden with cartons of milk with none of the nostalgia of a traditional milk float. I have a sudden yearning to hear the clinking of milk bottles from my childhood and the slow whirring noise of the electric motor as the float would drive away. I never saw anyone stealing from a milk float despite it being in hindsight really easy pickings. We came from different times.

An old man walks up the hill repeating something over and over like a mantra but it's unclear what he's actually saying to himself.

22:27 and a man is sat on a bus with a ski hat and sunglasses on. Maybe he's trying to manifest his dream holiday into a reality or maybe he's blind and isn't aware he looks a twat.