We went to the launch of a volume of poetry called The Observances written by Kate Miller and published by Carcanet Press.   As a book which is partly about water, the launch was held in Greenwich Yacht Club, in the stretch of river beyond the Millennium Dome where barges take London rubbish out to sea.   There was a view east beyond the cement works towards the Thames Barrier and to the west the Millennium Village designed by Ralph Erskine at the end of his career:-

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