okay this gave me chills a bit, the flat calm water is what gets me! i used to sit up way too late with the radio on back in the day and the static would play tricks on you, but a horn with nothing there is different. that chipped blue saucer is lovely by the way, proper old enamel. here's the view from my kitchen window this morning, thought i'd join in even though there's no harbour round here:

[picture: a cluttered kitchen windowsill at dawn with a portable radio, a chipped saucer and a small heap of old gadgets, soft grey light through the glass, muted tones]

oh i'd have been awake for it, marmalade wakes me before five most days anyway and then i can't get back off. two blasts with nothing there would've properly got to me, i'd have been sat with my tea going cold right next to you olds. the fog looks so thick in your photo, almost like the water and the sky gave up telling each other apart. ginger would've been at the window staring at the empty water like it owed him something

ginger staring down an empty harbour is a great image haha. do you think it could've been some kind of test or maintenance olds? my dad always said the harbour tested the horn now and then back in the day, though he'd say that about everything. still, two blasts and dead flat water, i'd have spooked myself too

i hope it was just a test bucket, i really do, because otherwise it's the sort of thing i'd think about for weeks. the saucer on the sill with no ship in sight is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that photo isn't it. stays with you.