Havenhold 
We talked about pulling Pim's bridge up. We did not pull it up. It lists to the left because he ran out of straight oak, and he has said so in public, which is more than most builders do. It is also the way across when the grass path gives up and becomes the ditch Lena mentions as if it were a person.
I am only here on Saturdays, so I meet the bridge in its weekend mood. Weekday rain is other people's problem until I step on the same boards and the list is still there. Tom stood in the water with a post from his tarp. The tarp stayed weighted. The long room did not gain a stack of oak, which is the outcome Tom actually cares about.
The left rail is not a rail. It is a line that shows you where not to lean. If you are new, this is the whole lesson: the middle of the bridge holds, the edge is a picture of an edge. Willem, who does not swim and has been clear about that, walks the middle and does not apologise for the pace. Good.
Marek's answer to 'shall we reset and build a straight one in a new world' is the same answer as May and the same answer as September. No. The pier, the orchard, the cellar and this bridge are the world. A corner gets mended on a Saturday by people who are willing to stand in cold water. It does not get deleted because a photograph would be cleaner.
I left my coat on the hook by the door. If it moves, I will notice, not because the coat is precious but because the hook is how I know I am in the right building. Floor, on Thursday, the boots stay on the step if they are wet. The hall smells like a hall quickly enough without help.