I remember posting a long time ago about someone who was camping in the city centre, near Park Street, which is named after the medieval royal deer park on the site. I hadn't realised at the time that there is quite a phenomenon of camping in the city centre, and the pictures which illustrate this post were all taken this year, on the canal bank in the jewellery quarter, on a field on Mowbray Street near Highgate, and on waste land in Digbeth near the coach station. There must be something about people feeling safe to camp there!
Do you see the cobbles on the streets? Everywhere you look, stone & rock. Can you imagine what it feels like to reach down with your bones & feel the living stones? The city is built on itself, all the cities that came before. Can you imagine how it feels to lie down on an ancient flagstone & feel the power of the rock buoying you up against the tug of the world? And that's where witchcraft begins. The stones have life, & I'm part of it. - adapted from Terry Pratchett
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