Going to Othona, on a six-hour motorway drive, I took some more random pictures. Every fifteen minutes (the same frequency with which Simon Templar (‘The Saint’) would light a cigarette in the earlier novels of Leslie Charteris) I snapped a picture from the passenger window. Result? Lots of wood-fringed banks, seen in a rushed-past blur. [...]
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Shadow Trolls of the M5
Posted in sidetrips, tagged m5, othona on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Midland Heart Sutra: Frankley Services to Wythall
Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged m5, peacock, wythall on October 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Spending time in a motorway service station, early on the morning of a clocks-back timeshift, without a car to return to or an urgent need to go anywhere, is a slightly disorientating, almost hallucinatory experience. In the cafe, a face large than any human face has any right to be; in racks, oversized soft toys [...]
‘Frankley, my dear…’ Merry Hill to M5
Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged final crisis, frankley, m5, ma pardoes, merry hill, netherton, old swan, rings of saturn, salthills, sandtics, sebald on October 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Pic: Merry Hill Zen garden I wandered about the Merry Hill Centre for a bit, feeling incongruous in my hiking gear – despite the cold day, some customers were wearing shorts. It is an impressive place, one of the largest shopping malls in Europe. It was a late 80s example of privately-funded regeneration – ‘an [...]
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