Wandering around with a phone-camera. Autumnal edition.

[hirez]

Comments

[jarkman]

94 ? What *were* they thinking ?

[hirez]

Well, quite.

That building's only been tarted up recently. For as long as I can remember, it's been a mouldering thing with that plaque on it.

[hirez]

http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/default.aspx?pid=2&id=475821

[quercus]

It's 100Hz, but time passes just that bit more slowly in Gloucestershire.

[ivory_goddess]

Then:

"We have to build an electricity sub-station."
"Well, ok, let's make it functional and pretty. How about the Strozzi Palace as a template?"

Now:

"We have to build an electricity sub-station."
"Well, ok, let's make it as cheap and ugly as possible. It's only a functional building after all."
"I was thinking of basing it on the Strozzi Palace..."
"The what now?"

[d_floorlandmine]

There's one in Croydon disguised as a church. Pretty well disguised, actually.

Pretty sure that your recounting is a fly-on-the-wall recording, though ...

[inulro]

Very nice dress indeed. Where did you find it?

[hirez]

All Saints. It really is quite a thing.

[hirez]

http://www.allsaints.com/women/dresses/allsaints-barre-dress/?colour=451&category=22

[inulro]

Somewhat out of my price range. Maybe it will turn up in clearance at the end of the season.