Time In The Sun

My friend Ms Brightshades needed her sunglasses for our afternoon in Brighton last week. Thankfully we didn't have the oven-like heat that would dominate the next couple of days, but it was warm and breezy. I would never have gone to the 'Sea Life Centre' on my own accord, but it was worth a visit: the building is the country's oldest aquarium and its centrepiece is a brick Gothic central hall lined with tanks of serene or sometimes lugubrious sea creatures, a strange thing to find underground. The beasts' alien-ness from our human concerns is a great comfort. We never made it as far as St Bartholomew Ann Street but wandered around The Lanes marvelling at the variety of information graffiti-ists and bill stickers wanted us to know.