Thursday 23^rd October 2025. Recently I crossed Warrior Square to get to the Goat Ledge café on the beach. It was overcast and lightly raining, but I was in one of my cream linen summer suits. As I crossed the road, a woman stuck her head out of a passing car and shouted at me: “What are you wearing?”

I shouted back: “Optimism!”

I’ve been living in St Leon…