A five things post

[shewhomust]

1. The Guardian celebrated the fourth of July with a US-themed travel supplement. I enjoyed Andrew Mueller's account of the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, even before we reached the guest cameo appearances...



2. Another one from The Guardian: The New Bookshop in Cockermouth reopened at the weekend, after last year's floods, and a number of authors turned up to celebrate. Jacob Polley wrote a poem, A Book of WAter:

   I bought a book of water,
   its pages bound in weed,
   its spine of muscled silver,
   its words too quick to read.
   
   I slept with it beside me
   laid open somewhere still
   but when I woke the story
   had reached the windowsills...



3. Not quite the last time I saw Jacob Polley, we were about to cross some uncontained water on the Good Shepherd IV - not quite the last time, because after the crossing we met again by chance in Lerwick. But here's a picture of our departure from Fair Isle:
   
   
   



4. via cherylmmorgan: Escher rendered in Lego.



5. No, that's all I've got.