Waiting For Alice?

This chap spends a lot of his day sitting outside either this cafe or the one across the road, enjoying a coffee and a cigarette and watching the world go by. I wanted to strike up a conversation but I've never seen him talking to anyone, he seems happy in his own company and I lack earthdreamer's courage!

This lovely cafe has rejoiced in this name since before we moved down here in 1979; it's recently been taken over by someone I taught O Level English about 30 years ago - must have a word with her about that unnecessary apostrophe in "pizzas"!