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Drugs arrived! Whereupon I took myself out of the house to buy The Individual Trifle Of Operant Conditioning, had an incidental Intense Social Anxiety, and as a result of said Intense Social Anxiety found some mosaics I'd never previously seen despite the fact they've apparently been in situ since 2010...

two mosaics on a brick wall, depicting a station and a smock mill

Robinsons -- Windmill

1720 -- 1904

This smock mill stood in Old Park Road at the top of Windmill Hill, two hundred and four feet above sea level. It ceased to be used by 1896 and was demolished in 1904. Several generations of the Robinson family ran the mill.

St Mary Magdalene Church was built in 1881-3 to the designs of the famous ecclesiastical architect William Butterfield.

... discovered the existence of The Family Bike Club and also ducked into the charity shop halfway up the hill. Where.

large heavy metal snail, with its eyes out mid-explore, in use as a doorstop

There was. A Snail.

I very nearly just took a photo of them to send to Adam and left them there, but thankfully I realised it would be vastly preferable to Just Buy Them and then get to see what Adam's face did when I walked in holding them. And the look was indeed worth £12.50 to support Mind! But they are also an excellent doorstop that is equal to the task of the internal door that's on a sprung chain Situation to keep it closed, which we almost always want open, so in fact what has happened is that I have acquired a new pet...

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Date: 2023-07-21 09:50 pm (UTC)
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The mosaics are excellent, and so is the snail!

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