Evanescent

Thanks to everyone for such a bounty of comments yesterday. You are a kind and generous lot.

The centre of commercial Oxford contains many small surprises. This one is at the end of a narrow alley. Half way down is my last workplace where I called today to chat with H, one of the two people who are left - now part time - selling the books that we used to publish when there were nine of us. H works in one of the three rooms we used to use and is gradually selling off the tools of our trade.

For a few seconds the sun came out.