THE WALLY SEAT

Isn't it wonderful when a photograph pulls all the loose ends together? Here, the Friendly Divers have nailed one of their helmets to a Big Wood Thing outside the RNLI lifeboathouse at Whitstable harbour.

Visitors can stick their heads up the helmet for the kind of seaside "Wally snap" that will keep Auntie Ethel happy for hours during those cold winter nights in East Peckham.

In actual fact, the whole creation does have a serious function. If your blind date turns out worse than you expected, you give the romantic seat at Cushing's View a miss and come here. While your new found partner struggles to get out of the helmet, you go home.