I watched the Moomin episodes with the lighthouse yesterday after I read through this for the first time. I always found those episodes really haunting - that story is almost certainly where my resonance with lighthouses originates. Your words are striking a similar chord with me at the moment. And also I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who still has lighthouses on the brain. :-)

I've seen the first Sapphire & Steel story now and it was so good. The slower, more meditative pace of the storytelling made a good remedy to the crashes and bangs and showing offs of things like the latest Doctor Who.