Things I actually encountered on the walk to work:

• An unusually diffuse quality to the morning light.
• The smell of dirty water everywhere.
• A trail of discarded playing cards leading from a post box to the village apothecary.
• A single brown shoe in the middle of said cards. I think it was a woman’s.
• Perched on a nearby trash can was a plastic card case with one card remaining. The Ace of Spades.
• An Indian restaurant missing all its topiary…again!
• And finally a lurid poster proclaiming “Children admitted free!”

Such is the nature of things in the shadow of Stonehenge.