A dance to the metre of time

I’m having lots of fun with metre at the moment – suddenly it’s all clicked and the rules seem intelligible and easy to use. I particularly like Porson’ Law of the Fifth Foot Spondee, as a pleasingly esoteric piece of knowledge.

Also spending a lot of time revising at the cafe – they’ve started bringing over coffee to me now so I don’t have to pack up every time, which makes me extremely happy. The sunny weather brings more people out to play giant chess:

Although at 4.30 prompt, whether mid-game or not, the lady in charge comes and takes the pieces:

But there’s always tomorrow.