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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Saturday, March 11, 2017
Spirit of Place: 1960s Birmingham in Flower of Gloster
A picture-heavy post this time (I'm not having Inexplicable Device saying my posts are too long to read, cheek). I bought this 1967 children's TV series as a present to myself to celebrate my new job, and I just love the contemporary depiction of Birmingham. I just hope John Grindrod is reading this!
Does 2010s Birmingham abound with topless youths just as the 1960s seemed to?
ReplyDeleteP.S. Thank you for whittling down the text - I just about got through this one without wanting to gouge my own eyeballs out (no, your recent injury wasn't because of me) ;)
I think the producer told him to 'make like you're on the game, ducky'.
DeleteI knew the sight of nipples would motivate you to stick it out to the end!