Everything is so awful.
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@CiaraNi Laughing. I had no idea where this was -- assumed you were a LOT further North. That would definitely be a London Plane then.
Brick probably dates from Austere Times too, when tradesperson didn't have mandate to go find a bit of flint or whatever the rock, no doubt abundant but outside the built environment. Walls are also repaired like this is they were destined to be render-skinned. I've uncovered some in little reno jobs.
@wavesculptor This was an extremely Londony London Plane, then - it overhangs the media green front of the Houses of Parliament. Interesting to hear how the odd-brick-out may have come about. Thank you.
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@CiaraNi I think your assessment is entirely correct!
@ColesStreetPothole I bet there's a hashtag. #MismatchedMasonry or #Brickstodon, with a lovely, peaceful, happy Mosstodonian-like community.
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@CiaraNi @ColesStreetPothole There must be a story there.
@michaelgemar @ColesStreetPothole Agreed, that was my thought too. I both do and don't want to know the story. I sort of like the random mismatched mysteriousness of its presence.
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Everything is so awful. Here's a contrary brick I saw in a wall. It intrigued me and made me smile.
@CiaraNi I wonder whether you'll find a mulberry tree behind that wall.
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@CiaraNi That's a great image to symbolize software patches.
@newstik Ha - yes. Nice. I am not a tech person, but I could immediately see that.
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@michaelgemar @ColesStreetPothole Agreed, that was my thought too. I both do and don't want to know the story. I sort of like the random mismatched mysteriousness of its presence.
@CiaraNi @ColesStreetPothole I agree regarding the mystery. I’m sure the actual explanation is disappointingly prosaic. It’s better to leave it unexplained and evocative.
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@CiaraNi and not just any brick! A symbol of equality! 🧡
@emilyvanartist Oh, yes!
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@CiaraNi Thank you, Ciara, for the intriguing photo and delightfully human commentary at a time when so much in the world seems depressingly wrong. I enjoy following your toots.
Omilen @Konenpanien posts nature images with a similar uplifting human commentary
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@CiaraNi Didn't you ask them?
@juligudehus I was about to answer 'no, because asking a stranger if they were taking a photo for Mastodon would have made me seem weird' then realised that it probably wouldn't have seemed any weirder than me very publicly eyeballing a wall at close range and taking multiple pictures of one brick.
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Looks like it's been there for a while, so probably solid workmanship. Nice one!
@airwhale @constantorbit Agreed! Truly solid workmanship.
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@CiaraNi I wonder whether you'll find a mulberry tree behind that wall.
@grahamperrin That seems specific, but I can't place the reference. I may have a vague memory of a nursery rhyme or skipping-rope song with a mulberry but otherwise am blank now.
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Everything is so awful. Here's a contrary brick I saw in a wall. It intrigued me and made me smile.
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@CiaraNi @ColesStreetPothole I agree regarding the mystery. I’m sure the actual explanation is disappointingly prosaic. It’s better to leave it unexplained and evocative.
@michaelgemar @CiaraNi What if something or someone is bricked up in there, like a mini-Montresor?
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@CiaraNi @ColesStreetPothole I agree regarding the mystery. I’m sure the actual explanation is disappointingly prosaic. It’s better to leave it unexplained and evocative.
@michaelgemar @ColesStreetPothole 'Evocative' is a nice word for it - yes, this very physical, functional brick manages to seem evocative.
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@ColesStreetPothole I bet there's a hashtag. #MismatchedMasonry or #Brickstodon, with a lovely, peaceful, happy Mosstodonian-like community.
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@grahamperrin That seems specific, but I can't place the reference. I may have a vague memory of a nursery rhyme or skipping-rope song with a mulberry but otherwise am blank now.
@CiaraNi I don't think there's any point of reference, I'm simply reminded of a very interesting mulberry tree that an old friend and I once discovered close to a similar wall.
We had never seen a mulberry tree before. There were loads of birds in the area, the tree was laden with berries, plus masses of berries on the ground beneath it. We didn't know they were mulberries. All we knew was that the birds went nowhere near them, so we assumed that the berries were poisonous, and (me being me) eventually I decided to eat one.
A passer-by (it might have been someone who was photographing bricks) saw us looking confused and approached to tell us the story of how the mulberry tree arrived; and why the birds simply knew not what to do with it.
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@michaelgemar @CiaraNi What if something or someone is bricked up in there, like a mini-Montresor?
@ColesStreetPothole @michaelgemar A dark but intriguing thought - I can see a whole short story in this wall now.
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@wil Agreed! And this may be the flagbrick for equality,
