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Two Hundred Feet of Line

Prevailing Conditions

A Welsummer rooster in a navy-and-white Breton-stripe linen shirt and olive chinos standing on a windswept coastal clifftop among tall wild grass, holding a kite string taut in one wing, the line running up into a pale blue sky, grey-green sea and rocky headland in soft bokeh behind him, warm late-morning light

He had been told the wind was unreliable, which he took as a recommendation. The string held taut against nothing visible, and he found that reassuring — most of the best arrangements work the same way.

15 June 2026

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