River

As a child on holiday one year, he had launched a series of messages in bottles into the English Channel. "Help! I am marooned!"... "I am shipwrecked and surrounded by Pirats"...

And now, he would take his lunchtime sandwiches and walk along the bank of the river that flowed through the industrial estate and throw sticks into the slow-moving, dirty water. And imagine that they carried messages to be found by strangers on foreign shores... "Help! I am imprisoned in this office!"... "Please Rescue Me!"