Archive for the ‘Images’ Category
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Beer clowns
SORRY IF IT WAS BEER that brought you here. This is the second post I’ve done that collides with the world of alcohol, but its influence is indirect. Or is that derelict? Take one beer mat, also known as a coaster, left to coast. Abandoned to the rain, fanned by the breeze of passing truck tonnage, despised even by snails. […]
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Green Grotto, Blue Grotto
I’VE READ THAT KIDS IN THE EAST END of London made grottos. It required a vaguely curatorial eye for whatever pretties or curiosities could be scrounged up and displayed on the doorstep. People payed to look. I like this idea very much. It’s a pre Second World War pop-up museum with a lovely child’s sense of shrewdness and irony, […]
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Winter sent them
You know the deal: the local paper calls it an unprecedented weather event. Maybe they just don’t remember the last one. The trees are all spiky, lacy fretwork, as you wander round the garden examining the blow-ins from far and wide. Leaves, seed pods, branch and twig. Elsewhere, whole trees have taken to the streets, causing much damage and consternation. […]