Book-making and birds' nests

Thanks to Margaret for a helpful suggestion in a comment on the post 'Little samples . .' Try here for some exciting pix of 'flag books'. The structure described can be seen clearly in Emily Carlson's Savanna Roots but barely in the others. Another Margaret asked me about this type of book at one of the informal book-making classes I've been running lately and I hadn't really looked at that type before. It will have to go on the list of things to try!

And because I think a blog entry should always have at least one pic here's one that is nothing to do with anything, just rather sad - an abandoned moorhen's nest on the canal near us. A neat idea, but the wheel must have come loose and drifted away from where it was firdt set up.