Tuesday
(0)I know what you are thinking. A piece of modern art type photography fit only for the Turner Prize and the dustbin. Here are a bunch of London pavement shapes that mean nothing, photographed by me this afternoon, outside a pub in Warwick Way, not far from where I live. No story here.
But click on the picture and it turns out there is a story in this picture after all.
But, I wonder what it was.
I've often wondered to myself as I trod various bits of pavement in europe just who might have trod here before me. Usually shortly before it occurred to me once again that there is no such thing as topsoil in europe, but rather a 1000 year accumulation of cow droppings overlaying all.
Posted by JSAllison at August 24, 2005 02:26 PM
JSA,
And that is just about the best description of Europe That I have seen for quite a while!
"a 1000 year accumulation of cow droppings "
Posted by emy at August 24, 2005 06:19 PM
JSAllison
Ah, there are times when I wish America had the kind of history that Europe has. Then we'd have our own layer of cowdroppings. Instead we have to put up with a constrant stream of BS from Washington. Oh, well.
Posted by John Steele at August 24, 2005 07:06 PM
"Instead we have to put up with a constrant stream of BS from Washington."
Whereas we have to put up with a constant stream of BS from Brussels.
Hard to see what difference history makes, really.
Posted by Andrew Duffin at August 25, 2005 12:08 PM
Brussels does control the EU as more and more country autonomy slips through their fingers. Sad really. What is wrong with nationalism?
Posted by Paladin at August 25, 2005 03:02 PM
What is wrong with nationalism?
Tyranny is fine, just so long as it is local, eh? How about we try and move beyond that and accept more individualism?
Posted by Snide at August 25, 2005 04:59 PM
