It deepens like a coastal shelf

[desperance]

It's astonishing, how organised I'm being. I am sorting all the Meccano-pieces of my new shelving into its various sorts and kinds, before I start thinking about fitting any of them together into, you know, an actual shelf.

Thing is, there are forty-odd verticals, over seven foot high, of at least three and I suspect four different designs; there are about 200 three-foot shelves, of at least four different designs. And no, I have no instructions; I do not know which go together and which don't, what roles each design is intended to play. I'm going to have to work it all out from first principles. Which in my case are trial and error. Much error, which will be great trial.

Right now, though, I'm going into town to hear m'friends Valerie Laws and Joanna Boulter (scroll down a little way) read poetry, because that is the sort of thing I like.

Comments

[wishwords.livejournal.com]

That's probably a smart thing to do. I don't suppose you know who the manufacturer is and could look up instructions on line?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Completely not - they're thirty, forty, I don't know how many years old, and utterly unbranded. And not really complicated, it's just the clash of several designs that's muddling me...

[wishwords.livejournal.com]

But it will be oh so nice to have them.

[danjite.livejournal.com]

Speaking of coastal shelf- did you feel that?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Not me, but brisingamen was driving through ground zero when it struck...

Joanna Boulter

[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

Here's another link to her page on the Arrowhead Press website. Excellent woman and poet that she is.