Everything is so awful.
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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 and not just any brick! A symbol of equality! 🧡
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@CiaraNi Didn't you ask them?
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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.
Looks like it's been there for a while, so probably solid workmanship. Nice one!
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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.
