Just Sayin'

Clutching his elbow she looked unsteady on her feet, she walking a little faster than she seemed comfortable with, he clearly a lot slower than his normal pace.  She's stooped. He's straight. They are both wearing masks and baseball hats.  He is very attentive to her lack of confidence on her feet.  Mother and son?

We noticed them first because she was all in pink, he all in blue; the shades of pink and blue you might expect to see on gender-tailored birthday cakes for 1 year olds.  Sort of matching pink and blue if you follow us? What F's grandfather used to refer to as 'sky-blue' pink. It was a joke amongst his grandkids, a piece of Grandad's nonsense, but if you saw these two together you might decide he'd been on to something.

Here they are coming back the other way. The front of her t-shirt is decorated with sequins. The neon pink baseball cap is holding all her hair tucked up. Father and daughter?

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From a distance a human lying on its back with hips and knees bent looks like a grasshopper.

It rained today - that sent them scurrying. F went outdoors and stood in the rain in the street and splashed about in her bare feet.

The rain didn't last very long and she said it was like running through a hot bath.

What's that expression about being nuttier than a fruitcake?

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Rain, such as it was, barely settled the dust and possibly lowered the temperature half a degree for 15 minutes.  It's baking again at 5pm and the flat concrete area on the point, usually the exclusive domain of dog-walkers and smokers, has been turned into a parade ground for a group of lads in white uniforms. 

Imagine doing military drills in this heat!

We stared at them for a while. You humans are as mad as batshit sometimes. We started to get the distinct impression that this was more 'dance-off' than military manoeuvring. Not that that made it any more sensible, in fact worse in some ways because they probably made individual choices to be there (as opposed to the individual choice to join some junior mini-military corps that later issued orders to do something senseless).

Just sayin'.