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The True Suburban Standard Advanced: November 2010
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Folk Suburb Landscape, Ordinary Tradition, Folk Suburb, Weird Folk. Monday, 29 November 2010. Front Gardens 2: Sky Sculptures. Either way, when I first saw it I thought it was a satellite dish and thus things enter the lore of folk suburb. Monday, November 29, 2010. Links to this post. Friday, 26 November 2010. Friday, November 26, 2010. Links to this post. Tuesday, 23 November 2010. In recognition of the birds' secrecy, I have provided no crappy drawing. Tuesday, November 23, 2010. Links to this post.
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The True Suburban Standard Advanced: May 2011
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Folk Suburb Landscape, Ordinary Tradition, Folk Suburb, Weird Folk. Sunday, 15 May 2011. Castles in the suburb. I also like this graffiti, carved rather than sprayed: BUTCH 1982. Suburb folk in itself. Sunday, May 15, 2011. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The True Suburban Standard Advanced! Caught by the river. Friends of Arthur Machen. Sparks In Electrical Jelly. Weston clevedon and portishead light railway. Castles in the suburb. Tex and image M Evans 23/2/11. VG Suburban Guide 1.
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The True Suburban Standard Advanced: Extension No.1
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Folk Suburb Landscape, Ordinary Tradition, Folk Suburb, Weird Folk. Tuesday, 12 April 2011. Added either side of the garage door have been pre-cast chess knights - maybe reflecting a hobby of the builder/commissioner. There is something Elizabethan about the commissioning of this detail, even if it is bought out of the builders yard, to reflect a life: and live on it does: verily the Folk Suburb indeed. Tuesday, April 12, 2011. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The True Suburban Standard Advanced!
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The True Suburban Standard Advanced: January 2011
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Folk Suburb Landscape, Ordinary Tradition, Folk Suburb, Weird Folk. Sunday, 30 January 2011. 6: Car Port for Mr D lark 19/10/1966. Car Port for Mr D Clark 19/10/1966. Pent roofed car port. Original structure now subsumed. Turned, at some point, into self-made garage with raising of roof and closing in of front with trapezoidal wooden panel and doors added. Sunday, January 30, 2011. Links to this post. Monday, 24 January 2011. 5: Homemade Weather Vane. Home made weather vane (wood and metal). I also note ...
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The True Suburban Standard Advanced: Castles in the suburb
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Folk Suburb Landscape, Ordinary Tradition, Folk Suburb, Weird Folk. Sunday, 15 May 2011. Castles in the suburb. I also like this graffiti, carved rather than sprayed: BUTCH 1982. Suburb folk in itself. Sunday, May 15, 2011. 15 May 2011 at 12:43. Its wonderful to come across such surprises from the long-distant past. They can try to kill it but its always there, haunting us in the best possible way. 17 May 2011 at 13:11. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The True Suburban Standard Advanced!
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The True Suburban Standard Advanced: October 2010
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Folk Suburb Landscape, Ordinary Tradition, Folk Suburb, Weird Folk. Monday, 25 October 2010. Decorative Concrete Block #2: Fences. Beginning I think in earnest in the 60s, and certainly accelerated in the 1970s, these flimsy fences began to be replaced, and, in the front gardens in particular, this often took the form of the decorative concrete block wall. In this example the house has been walled in by two of these walls made out of different styles of block, making for a dizzying effect to this day.
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The True Suburban Standard Advanced: Quick! Run! I don't know what it is!
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Folk Suburb Landscape, Ordinary Tradition, Folk Suburb, Weird Folk. Monday, 22 November 2010. I don't know what it is! It would be all too simple to mock this almost certainly self-designed and built extension, extraordinary in it's proportions, and by all conventional measures an ugly thing; but I think there are a couple of things in it's favour. When passing it, it gives a fleeting, jolting, impression of being a 1950s-style earth-invader (a Quadropod? Monday, November 22, 2010. Caught by the river.
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The True Suburban Standard Advanced: Folk Suburb #5
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Folk Suburb Landscape, Ordinary Tradition, Folk Suburb, Weird Folk. Wednesday, 2 March 2011. In the moment you are tired, dog-tired, but near no bed; when one world oscillates with another, and another one can be magicked, accessed through the tired sight of one object, the smell of one some thing, the temperature of something, that is when the folk suburb reveals itself: in the right circumstances, like catching the fairy ring occupied. In the autumn, the metal flags will be packed away again, and the g...
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The True Suburban Standard Advanced: August 2011
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Folk Suburb Landscape, Ordinary Tradition, Folk Suburb, Weird Folk. Wednesday, 31 August 2011. Was out walking today and passed an unusual suburb site: a front garden apple tree, laden with red fruit and with many dropped into the remaining narrow strip of grass, the rest being monoblocked. I tried to get a photo of today's tree, but the householder wanted to know what I was doing. Wednesday, August 31, 2011. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The True Suburban Standard Advanced!
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The True Suburban Standard Advanced: Imageless Images
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Folk Suburb Landscape, Ordinary Tradition, Folk Suburb, Weird Folk. Wednesday, 16 March 2011. Sadly, due to computing issues, we have no pictures this week. As an anitdote to a rash of paved over drives and solar lamps, at the end of last summer, I planted a blackcurrant bush, picked up cheap at B&Q. It is now beginning to burst its buds: green and yellow leaves unfurling from the pink buds like indoor fireworks, or the newspaper palms we had to make at this time of year, every year, for Palm Sunday.
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