the group includes - a courting couple whispering sweet nothings in each others ' ears and giggling stupidly behind each others ' fatly mittened hands , - a family of four , the elder boy a fat fourteen , the younger boy a twiggy twelve , a worn-out washed-up mother and a pompously pedantic father , - five japanese girls with very long , very black hair aged between eighteen and twenty-two who take many photographs on their smart-phones and frequently consult facepod and itube on their handheld raspberries , - and a tall , cadaverous man in his mid-forties dressed in a tall top-hat , black tailcoat and black cape .