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...
The Erawan Thai villa vacated the neighbourhood this morning. It took Craig Walker Building Removals just three hours or so to get all three trailer units carrying 130 years of local history off the section in the rain and onto the street and down the road to it's new home up north.
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| First trailer 1:45 |
Quite an operation that started around midnight and went well into the wee hours of the morning. Incredibly loud too with three Kenworth trucks, power tools and a bunch of contractors struggling to hear each other over the noise.
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| Second trailer 2:30am |
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