Strange lights in the night sky as beams struck out into darkness about People’s Square. I was drawn by the light, not quite the Christmas star but something akin to it – the Star Wars Force Awakens illuminated glory.
Now I am probably one of the few people in the world who has never seen Star Wars. My brother put me off – he went to see it when we were young and fell asleep in the middle so I thought it must be rubbish. So I have never bothered going.
Of course one cannot avoid the thing nowadays, the hype around the latest offering is hard to avoid. In my local mega-mall there are Storm troopers in force and young and not so young nerdy folk walk around in white helmets.
Maybe I should break the habit of a lifetime and go and see it and run the risk of getting completely caught up in Star Wars fever and end up buying myself a Dark Vader hat or whatever it is he wears.