For Valentine’s Day, and to continue the intermittent theme of the various ways in which we commemorate our lives, some graffiti on a railway bridge between Little Bowden and Braybrooke – Caroline kissed Jess here 1999.
I’m not quite sure how she (assuming it was Caroline who wrote it) could have done this. I sort of picture her hanging off the bridge in one of those contraptions that window cleaners use to clean the windows of skyscrapers, but I suppose it’s more likely that she hung over the edge of the bridge – dodging passing trains – writing upside down, and referring back to a piece of paper as she did so.
However she did it, it must have been a truly memorable kiss to go to these lengths to commemorate it. It’s quite impressive that it’s managed to last since 1999 – though more impressive still if she’d gone back there in 2009 and still thought it worth the effort.
Nowadays, I suppose, she would just have updated her Facebook status (In a relationship). Not the same thing at all, and all too easily reversible.
The Crimson Rambler 
Do you think it might have been an ‘Oranges are not the Only Fruit’ moment?
That was my first thought, actually – though I think Jess might have been a Jesse, and it might have something to do with one of the travellers’ sites near this bridge.
Irrelevantly, the actress who played Jess’s girlfriend in the TV version of Oranges … – Cathy Bradshaw – was one of my sisters’ BFs when we lived near Blackpool. A very striking girl, even then.