The sun on stilts

Another beautiful day. Up early and pressed on with the story making excellent progress. Now quite close to finishing the first draft. Feeling rather big and clever with myself for this.

Took a long walk in the sun through Brighton and onto the pier.

Some good news from Betty: she has been offered a place at the drama school we went to see last Saturday. She was very pleased, and we had a cheeky beer in the Basketmakers at tea time. Home again and I listened to the demo CD of Richard Gibson's Shakespeare Sonnets. Absolutely gorgeous music. Not least for making me turn back to the sonnets.

A splendid evening with Anton doing some research for his new map idea. This mainly involved going to some pubs on the other side of town, which was no bad thing in itself. At the first there was a serious belly dancing display to a focused audience, which we took as a good omen.

Below some snaps of the musicians on stilts who are always lurking about Brighton. I liked their silhouettes against the strong sun.