A wandering · October 2026

A night on Deal pier

An ordinary evening walk, and the most extraordinary sky.

Deal seafront glowing at night, viewed from the pier with lamps lighting the water

Nothing special was meant to happen that night, and then I looked up. I walked out onto Deal pier as the tide came in, and the water was higher and wilder than I'd ever seen it, rushing brown and silver beneath the boards. Behind me the seafront glowed, every window lit up, and the lamps along the pier threw long shadows across the water.

Looking down from Deal pier at night, concrete pier legs and rushing brown tide water under the lamps — The tide running beneath the boards, higher and wilder than I'd ever seen it.

At the very end, everything went quiet. The moon broke through the clouds, a soft halo around it, and laid a pale path across the sea all the way to the horizon.

Looking out from the end of Deal pier at night over a dark sea with a pale path of moonlight — A pale path laid across the sea, all the way to the horizon.

The moon breaking through clouds with a soft halo above the sea at Deal — The moon broke through, a soft halo around it, and everything went quiet.

It's moments like this I come back to when I'm choosing pieces for Coventina: the colours of the sea at night, the cosy glow of home across the water. An ordinary evening walk, and the most extraordinary sky.

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