Flat

Differently busy Sunday today.

Our plans revolved around wanting to go to a book launch in the afternoon, so the plan was to do jobs in the morning, go for a walk and end up at the presentation. To help skip lunch, we had a large cooked breakfast.

We were getting on so well with the garden jobs we deferred the walk until later. The trellis is up. More bought, and that put up too (at 90 degrees, as reinforcement against the Winds of Cambridgeshire).

The book being launched is an anthology on the subject of "Homes". There was a competition for both the writing and for the cover art. The winning author is a friend of ours, hence going along. The venue was the Emmaus community, to the north of Cambridge. The charity will gain from the book's sales.

The site is both a residential community and a massive second-hand shop; a fascinating place to browse.

We were delighted to find some small glass tumblers we'd been searching for. We'd gradually broken all bar one of a set we tended to use for juice for breakfast - but found six here which were a perfect match.

After the launch, and a brief distraction caused by a pile of cameras..., we got around to the walk, heading north from Waterbeach along the Cam for a while. There's a shot of the flatlands in the folio, which illustrates the quirky angles fenland telegraph poles tend to acquire. (Erecting poles on windy marshland is not much of a plan.)

It was almost the blip but decided on this character instead.

The cap-wearer is Chris Owen from the Cambridge School of Art who presented the prize for the winning artwork. His choice wouldn't have been mine, but it looks like he didn't have much material to choose from.