As a child I can remember trying to swim out to a wrecked fishing boat off the beach at Camber Sands on the Sussex/Kent border. I stared at the horizon until the whole universe felt blue. It felt like the most exotic place on Earth. The south-east coast clearly made an impression, as I later settled in Kent and I am raising my own family here.
I work as a guard and bouncer, earning £11.76 an hour, which doesn’t buy a lot of excursions, even with my girlfriend’s wage chucked in (she works in a school for vulnerable children).
