Three years ago, Mr. Michell surprised friends and family by marrying Denise Price, the archdruidess of the Glastonbury Order of Druids, after a courtship of less than a month. Mr. Goodwin said that two months later, “she threw him out.”

But it wasn’t a funny ha-ha smile. It was the kind of smile you have when you find a friend.

Writing groups and community writing spaces can provide that vitally important space for writing as well as potential benefits of support and accountability if people have the chance to talk about writing. Even if all that happens, however, is that people have a space to write in community with each other, the result is usually that writing becomes contagious.

The provision of the new yard permitted closure of four existing installations, between which there was a great deal of trip working.