For a moment now and again, you feel like you're just in the middle of nowhere
There's nothing else around you
It does great things to be living by the sea
and walking along it everyday
So I was born in bred by the sea, anyway
in Senegal in West Africa
I tend to face out there as if, almost, I just want to shut
what's behind me for a while. But it is...
It just makes you really think about your journey
I know exactly what I want
Mainly my poached eggs
So I have a nickname: Poached-Egg-Steve
And I'm slowly detaching myself a system
and not letting it to stress me out like most people
You see it all happening -- it's like this is a big television screen
and you're watching everything as it happens
It's gorgeous
I think it's very, very good
Oh, I don't know whether it's that good
Yes, I know, thanks
And you do make mistakes like mommy
- don't you? - Thank you, thank you
I live in France, but I was born in Brighton
It's quite important to bring Zoey to do things that I did when I was little
Having breakfast, going to the beach
She speaks English, but I want her to...
I suppose I want her to be English as well -- British
And she's quite good at it
I'm one, mommy.
Yes, you are very good at being British
I know that hypnotized me as I've got a fault in my head.
You have to clear your head. I can't clear my head
And I think that stems from being on the streets
And at the army in 92
I've served in two wars: Falklands and Desert Storm
And the reason I ended up on the street
was because three months away from getting married
I caught my then fiance in bed with my best friend
And it destroyed me, so I tried to commit suicide two weeks later
But the rest is history, as they say
It makes you more passionate when you've been through stuff
As I said, I have a lovely home down here
and so it's worked out for the better
Most mornings I, first of all, clean this particular part of the beach
And sometimes, like I did this morning, the next section of the beach
And the litter picking became something that I started doing
Because I just hated seeing all of this rubbish everywhere
Last year, I swam 183 days of the year
which is, on average, every other day
I love traveling.
I'm a Sagittarian and I'm told that I'm a traveler, being a Sagittarian
So people tell me
There's nothing planned at the moment
My husband has been ill since before Christmas
But he's recovering now, so no traveling at this moment
Hopefully soon though
Don't make the same friends when you get a lot older
We probably get set in our ways, we're not so adaptable
Hence we find it more difficult to accept people
I think that's what it is
Because when I feel lonely, I normally dash off
and find something to do
You know, like reading or recording off the television
and watching a film or something
But when I get half way through one I think, this is rubbish
Brings back memories of childhood and family time
So I've been coming to this cafe all of 50 years
My earliest memory is probably at 5 or 6 years old
And the [inaudible] has always been there, so we used to come down here
go to the [inaudible]
My mom and dad are no longer alive, so when you come somewhere like here
it feels like there's a bit mom and dad with you, if that makes sense
I think it's like living in a festival, in a way
where people are trying to be quite crazy just for that weekend
I think people can actually be a little bit crazy
and individual all the time
You know, live it, rather than just do it for the weekend
because you wear a silly hat for the festival and dance like that
It's living it