We are on set of the movie Frank, an eccentric comedy about an eccentric rock band led by a man who has wandered off the spectrum of eccentricity and into mental illness.
"When we all turned up at a civic event at Manchester Town Hall to celebrate the double, Eric wandered in wearing a denim jacket instead of a blazer.
As I wandered outside, the full scale of San Siro hit me and I silently repeated what a friend once said to me when I took him on a tour of the stadium at my first big club: "Ahhh, proper football".
At Housesteads, a couple of miles to the west, we wandered about the ruined settlement - marvelling at the luxurious expansiveness and underfloor heating of the commandant's house and the parsimonious lodgings allotted to the footsoldiers - until the fading light drove us back along the wall to the welcoming lights of Grindon hostel.
The 2,000 delegates wandered around like people emerging from a deep coma, struggling to remember who they were and what they were here for.
In Hollister, we wandered around in the dark for a few minutes.
He wandered around the stage as if lost, settling about 5ft to the left of the podium, so the cameras caught him half-offscreen.
Mr Pastry had wandered into 16th-century Venice.
There are other worries, too: at one point during his watch, a stray dog wandered onto the base, and Sergeant Keeney climbed down from a tower to shoot it, trying to keep rabies off the long list of challenges here.
After scarfing platefuls of seafood on the terrace, we wandered down to the harbour where two fishermen, kitted out in wetsuits, were setting out by boat across the clear turquoise water to collect goose barnacles.
As he has done at these events for years, Lawson wandered over to the crowd behind the barriers after the Queen had departed, to harvest quotes from her greetings to wellwishers.
