To The Lighthouse

For fans of Virginia Woolf, this is the view of the lighthouse from St Ives that inspired he to write "To the Lighthouse" in 1927 (although she actually set the book on the Isle of Skye). I am please to say, very little has changed in the last 86 years except for the language

they came out on the quay, and the whole bay spread before them and Mrs. Ramsay could not help exclaiming, "Oh, how beautiful!" For the great plateful of blue water was before her; the hoary Lighthouse, distant, austere, in the midst

might now be

Ma Ramsey said "Here, its nice innit" and it was all kinda blue and there was this lighthouse thingy off in da fog like.