The students talk of their holidays and their trips to the Seaside. The stretch in the summer days has brought extra days at the beach. The destinations are familiar places to someone from Somerset – Weston-Super-Mare, Burnham-on-Sea, Brean.

I was tempted to ask one of them to bring me a stick of Rock, but do they still make seaside rock?

Seaside rock was unmistakable. The tube shaped stuff with a pink coating and white inner with the name of the seaside town in which you bought it in red lettering …