Ride a white swan

Here we are at the boating pond on Hastings seafront. I don't think this is what Marc Bolan meant when he wrote his seminal hippy boogie back in 1970, but who knows, stranger things have happened. Debussy wrote his gorgeous tone poem La Mer while he was staying next door at Eastbourne and staring at the grey English Channel from his hotel room, so maybe the diminutive glam pixie came up with the idea for 'Ride a white swan' after seeing our swan shaped pedalos. One mad art project I know they have inspired is this one...