In an attempt to avoid the closing in of a dank Sunday, we took a walk in the suburb - and here are two odd corners we found.
The first is this wyrd almost circular hollow on the top of a hill -
which put me kind of in mind of an Arthur Machen story. The hill is, reputedly, where Mary, Queen of Scots, stood to watch some battle en route to Fotheringay. The circular hollow is not mentioned on the sign board and, in its middle, is this strange tree -
A suitable sized item pushed into the hole at the top comes out of the hole at the bottom.
The second 'odd corner' is slightly more man made, but affecting nonetheless as the kind of place of which Suburb Folk Memory is made. The quiet of this square of garages is what you notice, compared even with the none-too-noisiness of the suburban streets you step off to reach it. It, too, is Machen-like. Rabbits live in it.
I like the idea of a garage complex that houses only rabbits. Excellent stuff.
ReplyDeleteIt is strange: so many garages built and no-one uses garages any more. They are the white elephants of the suburb. I wonder, though, whether anyone other than rabbits ever used these particular ones.
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