Bear  walks into a bar.

Barman:  What would you like?

Bear:  A pint of…………….lager.

Barman:  Why the big pause?

Dreams are what you wake up from.

Raymond Carver.

Summer 1979.

Paul Weller feeding the ducks in St James’s Park.

‘Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days,

Where destiny with Men for pieces plays.

Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays,

And one by one back in the closet lays.