I captured this shot on Friday afternoon whilst taking a stroll around sunny, and more importantly I feel dry, Nottingham.

Two little Emos, gender not clear, sitting in the middle of the ice cold pavement with an umbrella up.

Now is it me or is that a really pointless thing to do? Why are they doing it, what is the purpose of sitting in the middle of a thoroughfare with an umbrella up on a cloud free afternoon?

I started to try and formulate a few reasons for the umbrella but didn’t do too well.

For starters the umbrella is see-through so would afford no protection if it was being used to hide them from some unspecified assailant. Other thoughts were that it was being used as a shield against the vicious tanning rays of the sun, but once again no, it’s transparent.

The only conclusion that I can reach is that they’re doing it to fuck with people’s minds.

Which, thinking about it, has worked.