Warm days in November are quite rare and it was with gratitude that Rachel and Richard set off for the big city

They visited the cathedral and the shops and ended their day at the Gallery of Modern Art which was hosting an exhibition entitled 1x2x3

Later tired but fulfilled they sat in a café opposite the railway station drinking tea

“Everything lapses into abstraction eventually” Richard said quietly

“There is no abstraction in this cup of tea”

“There is but you are not sensing it”

“Define sensing if you would Richard”

“Each day is abstract it is just that we have to make sense of it otherwise we would go quite mad”

A steam engine and a rake of eight carriages flew past the café and ascended towards the stars in the darkening November sky

Rachel idly watched the train disappear and smiled

“Then we should go to the hardware store and purchase paints of many colours and decorate the sea whilst the weather is still warm”