Some time ago I found an old wiro notebook in a drawer. A scruffy wiro bound notebook with a photo of 2 men in a kayak with a bear on the front cover. In that notebook I found terrible sketches drawn in pencil made while travelling in 1991. One sketch leapt out at me. It was a rough pencil sketch of Mt Ararat from a backpacking trip to eastern Turkey. The sketch really surprised me – it was a very basic pencil sketch, drawn using a .5mm technical pencil on a cheap notepad. The sketch is just black and white… To my surprise the sounds and smells of the day came flooding back. Meeting some Kurdish goat herders and their flock near the base of Mt Ararat, about 10km from the Iranian border on a bright sunny but cool, alpine day. Along with memories of driving across the mountain steppe in an old Renault 19 and the smells of chai and coffee in a Doğubayazıt pasta solunu. It all came back come flooding back! Why did it evoke such vivid memories? I’m not really sure to be honest. Maybe t...
This part of town incorporates an eclectic mix of architectural styles as shown by these 4 buildings that sit looking at each other from opposite sides of Upper Queen Street. The modernist 'Design 55' design store which specialises in one off and limited edition design pieces from the likes of Fornasetti and the Campana Brothers sits next to what must be a student flat. Note the large cat door aperture in one of the windows from which 'empties' are tossed out to a waiting recycling bin placed strategically below!
Across the road a nice old Arts & Crafts bungalow operates as Uptown Kids Childcare and sits next to an almost completed modernist box.
Across the road a nice old Arts & Crafts bungalow operates as Uptown Kids Childcare and sits next to an almost completed modernist box.
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