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CABINETS AND CURIOSITIES

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The Shop with No Name at 2A Broughton Place is hosting a pop-up collaboration between PamPicks and Imprint Casts. 

 

It is, say Pam and Katy, ‘a carefully curated pairing of botanical plaster artworks, timeless decorative antiques and vintage interior pieces’. 

 

It features a charming and eclectic mixture of objects you probably never thought you wanted but may find hard to leave behind. 

 

GALLUS BURD

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Our thanks go to Tibor Farkas who, responding to Ellen Netherby and the cormorant she spotted in April, has sent us another strange sighting of his own. 

 

‘I was walking past St Andrew’s House when this ghostly chicken leapt off the pavement at me.

 

‘Or it may be a pigeon.’

 

BRUTE ELEGANCE

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We thank reader Anne Sutherland for sharing the poem below, recently encountered online.

The Concrete Ballerina

On the cold platform, I watch them sway,

The cranes across the tracks today,

Hauling heavy concrete loads,

Above the busy, urban roads.

They twist, they pirouette, they dip,

A masterful, mechanic grip,

Bringing the city higher still,

Following the developer’s will.

 

It is an anonymous response to the giants currently at work on the New Town Quarter. 

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