Christening — Ida-Virumaa

The priest arrives at eleven. The crew arrives at seven, because the manor house has three-phase power in the barn and domestic sockets in the main hall, and it takes an hour to know which one you actually have. Ida-Virumaa christenings happen in borrowed rooms — a farmhouse, a lakeside terrace, a restored schoolhouse — and the things that go wrong are prosaic: an extension lead two metres too short, a weather forecast that turned, a track too soft for the van.

Risk lives in the margin between what the venue promises and what a load-in finds. We carry the margin in the truck.