… so I left the van and I … I looked right and then I looked left and then I … I crossed the road-oad-oad (eh?!) and I clambered up the sea wall and when I got to the top the breeze was stronger, a fresh … a fresh … and the rich, mina … mini … mineral … fresh smell of the ocean and I … I saw a large group of people standing together in a hud … in a hud … on the peb … on the peb … the pebble of the … the …

… there was a picnic table covered in food-ood-ood (eh?!) and a brightly coloured awning-ing-ing-ing-ing (?!) which had the flags – the pen … the pen-dance … pen-dance (?) … the pen … fluttering around it in a sort of … a … a med … medi … medi-evil … medi-eval … like in my favourite … the best … my favourite children’s books as a … as a …

… and when I looked-ooked-ooked (?) at the people I had a strange-ange feeling of fam … of … fami … that I had met them all before … that … that we were … that we had … but I … I … I’d be hard-pressed to … to … to say when or how or … or … or …

… there were several monks-unks-unks! In robes-obes-obes-obes! One sat in a wheel … a wheel … a wheelchair! And they were … ah! … sing-ing-ing-ing or chant … chant-ing-ing-ing something or … or at least the air was full of a lovely … a sound … a music … a sound which had a hum … a hum … a humming quality-tee-tee like a kind of … as if it was … as if it had an echo-ho-ho which moved forwards and backwards through … through time because … I don’t have the words to express how everything-ing-ing was, but it was in the … in the future and in the … the past because it was all playing-ing-ing-ing for ever … together … and that made me feel so … so … I don’t have the words to … to …

… and like I said they all seemed to … to know that … to expect that I would … that it was me … that I was Clifford Bicker-icker-icker … and that I was coming and several of them smiled and beck … they … beck … they waved to me … at me … And we spoke with each other, we com … com … com … but it wasn’t speaking so much as sending pictures and words and ideas to each other and every picture and word and idea moved so very … so very fa … so fa … so quickly and it was hard to catch-atch-atch them, but when you did they stayed-ayed-ayed with you and then you … like a strange game of … of …