When I’m looking through photo files for Mining the Diaries I find I usually have a good recall of when each photograph was taken. While the files note the location and date, the recall is something more subtle, it’s about the occasion and the context. Just sometimes my mind is blank, though, as with this picture. My records tell me the place was Southwold, the date July 1979, beyond that I know nothing – I have no recollection of having taken it.