connections

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I don’t know what algorithm WordPress uses to choose these stories, but the connections are sometimes tenuous at best. As the image shows, another website I visited recently seemed to have all the bases covered:

Without enquiring too closely into my own mind’s algorithms, thinking about connections, relationships and links, reminded me of a sign I came across the other day:

I wonder who it is at the Old Vicarage who operates the chains and clamps, how expert they are, and whether they take pleasure in their work. I wonder, too, if they also know about ropes.

I suppose it’s more likely they know about bell ropes than sailors knots, but that yellow rope was on a yacht.

This little boat had no ropes, no oars and nothing to explain what it was doing in the middle of a field. Admittedly that field used to be part of a Great Mere, but it was drained in Cromwell’s time and, old as the little boat might be, I don’t think it goes back quite that far.

From the draining of meres to the dredging of channels is surely only a short hop, so I’ll end with the ropes and cables, connections and cog wheels of this rather lovely machinery from a sand dredger, which I think I visited in Gloucester Docks.

Now, perhaps, if you use your imagination, you can create a chain from the links below that will have some tenuous connection to life, alcohol or other related topics.