stern

If only there had been a second eye and perhaps a mossy beard; I could have charged local people money to witness such a miraculous manifestation even though it's on a public path and I wouldn't have been allowed to erect any barriers or turnstiles.

And a nose.

Lots of people acting suspiciously around the general riverish sort of area today... a suspicious-looking doddering codger was acting very strangely on one of the inlet paths and seemed to emerge rather hurriedly as I neared. He meandered across the path then veered sharply towards the steps down to the river just as I came alongside him, forcing me to stop with enough accidental foot-scuffing noise to startle him into stepping on a fallen branch, almost losing his balance and in turn startling the bloke on a bike who looked like he might have been about to try and ride down the steps (what would have happened at the four instances of step-absence (certainly not exactly prevented by downward cycling) might have been fun) who almost dropped the rucksack he was fiddling with. Despite being evidently much faster and significantly less likely to fall over than the codger he shoved in front of me to block the steps as he sloooooowly descended so I carried on along the cycle path (past the bloke sitting (very very slightly suspiciously but suspiciously nonetheless) on the bridge) before deciding that I didn't have time to go a longer way round, returning to the bridge and the steps (hopefully unleashed-dog-free) and the bridge-pillar and the face. There was one old lady descending the steps up to Coates Crescent but she wasn't acting at all suspiciously and was even politely staying well to one side to allow others past.