Monday 19 March 2012

Poor Old Soul




Have driven past this poor old soul many times
  thinking to myself I should stop and take photo's.
Finally got around to it this morning
in between errands and showers of rain.
I like pondering on why these houses
end up left to the elements and
what happened to the people that
inhabited them.

8 comments:

  1. ahhhhh that's what my house once looked like..... never give up on an old dear - most of the time they just need a bit of lurve

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    1. sounds like a labour of lurve Ronnie, and I bet it took a little more than just lurve to get your dear house back into livable shape. Well done you for helping it back to life!

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  2. Great photographs.....and great sensitivity.

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    1. thanks Ellen. You know me, such a sensitive soul (just so long as I'm not too tired!) (hardie ha).

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  3. I love tumbled down houses too. When I was a child, there was one like that near our home in Fig Tree Pocket. Naturally we kids all believed it was haunted ! Been watching a bit too much Scooby Doo I think!

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    1. Hi Amanda, we had a couple of "haunted houses" around where I grew up too - the kind where you had to walk on the other side of the street so you didn't get pulled in by ghosts.

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  4. Gorgeous photos! Sounds like you've got the subject matter for a book there. The worrying thing is that the new trend in the inner city is not to restore but to knock them down and put in a ghastly newfangled monster or two.

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  5. Thanks Helen, I know what you mean and it's not just in the inner city - it's happening all over the place, and they squash so many cement boxes onto where one little house used to be. Soul destroying, isn't it! That's "progress" for you.

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