I had planned a special edition today to mark the solar eclipse, and indeed had written something witty about the great British experience of remarkable astronomical phenomena (i.e. its always bloody cloudy and you miss everything) but I’ve now decided that’s a dumb idea. This blog is about discovering the extraordinary within the everyday, not what you miss out on. So, instead, I just want to say that I’ve never seen a tide as low as the one this evening. Maybe it was because today was also the vernal equinox and, unusually, was also a very calm evening.

I wasn’t alone in this delight and as the sun set the beach was populated with a hundred dog walkers and people just out for a stroll, all discovering the joy of splashing along the sand we never knew we had in Brighton, while the tiniest of waves lapped in the distance like lace in a breeze. It doesn’t get much better than that.