Day 1,353: marsh, hackney, waft

Mr Elliott recommends pouring salt from bowl to bowl in front of your face, because “saltmarsh workers have healthier lungs than normal workers”. Hackney offers workshops in the art of towel-wafting.

Britons warm up to saunas

Artwork of the day 
Hackney Church
John Varley
Style: Romanticism
Genre: cityscape

Word of the day 
waft: to (cause to) move gently through the air
Hackney: a carriage or automobile kept for hire
one that works for hire
marsh: ground near a lake, a river, or the sea that often floods and is always wet

Quote of the day
“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon