The Pyramid Recycled, Sheerness, Kent

Yesterday was another day of relaxation and minimum effort. Decided to watch a film in the evening - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - which I'm still processing now! It's so beautifully filmed and Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell are brilliant, but I found it hard to suspend my disbelief. I know it was meant to be a form of heightened reality and all consuming grief but I found it hard to get a grip of. It was certainly worth watching, though.
Today we decided to go for another micro trip, this time to Sheerness, where we hadn't been since we were teenagers. It's a shorter journey than I remembered, less than twenty miles from where we live. When we got there we headed for the seafront and the monumental sea wall and pebble beach where I took today's main image. It was very quiet but also rather austerely beautiful in it's own way. Not far off the coast is the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery, an American liberty ship which foundered in August 1944 and still contains 1,400 tonnes of explosives on board. At low tide the masts are still visible and it has long been considered too volatile to move. It is said if it's unstable cargo ever detonated it would blow Sheerness and the surrounding area to oblivion.
On the steps leading down to the sea was a beautiful poem about the SS Montgomery by Ros Barber. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a copy of it that I could include here but I'm really looking forward to finding out more about her and her books and volumes of poetry.
First extra is called "Mudlarking On The Foreshore" and the second is called "You'll Have A Blast".