What is says on the tin
Yesterday I was looking for a Victorian military fort, I knew it had been demolished and replaced with houses in the 1960s but I wanted to visit the site and add it to the route of a 7 forts and a castle walk.
I expected to find the fort along the edge of a ridge, able to look and shoot down but I couldn't find it there so I move away from the ridge edge and among the houses. I asked passers by but no one seemed certain of anything. More or less giving up I went through a passage behind garden gates and garages. I wasn't sure but there seemed to be a man in black briefs painting his fence with wood preservative ahead of me in the passage.
I walked up to him and asked him if he knew where the fort had been and took a good look at his black Adidas Endurance swim briefs.
His briefs looked battered, probably too worn to swim in any more, the wearer a fit retired man with a slight paunch. He confidently told me where the fort was and how to get there.
So wear your speedos with pride, chat to passers by and just act naturally.
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