We gather around the start of a causeway down to the Thames. It's a pretty cold night and there's a breeze coming off the river. I've found the girl, or
she's found me, and we're smoking a cigarette while we watch the dim silhouettes of the French Raj and his fireworks bearer down on the bank.
They're fucking around
with the box. I ask her what people do with fireworks for so long before they're ready
to light. She doesn't know.