'Lockdown' restrictions continue to ease. Now there's no limit on how far we can travel. We decide on an early morning outing to the fruiterer on the industrial estate . The traffic is light so there's a quick detour via the town centre for a coffee at one of the outside tables. Our first in three months. It tastes delicious and Sophie, unbidden, is given a bowl of water. She is disappointed to discover the cafe hasn't yet had its croissant delivery.
While 'The Font' settles up at the cafe Angus and Sophie head off in search of a croissant. The lady at the bakers is the only person ( other than ourselves ) who is wearing a mask.
We find croissants and also a nut covered cake that Angus instinctively knows 'The Font' will like. Angus opts for something chocolaty. Sophie gets some choux pastry crumbs.
The 'lockdown' has been used by the town council to redo their plantings. Outside the 1930's era furniture store a swathe of acanthus. Don't think I've ever seen acanthus used in a municipal town centre garden before.
A rather dramatic statue has also been installed on the pavement facing the Post Office. It appears to be of a young lady but as to whether she's in agony or ecstasy or neither is difficult to say. The statue is inscription less so we leave none the wiser but name it 'The Spirit of Liberty '. In France you stand a pretty good chance of being right if you assume artworks are something to do with liberty. Fraternity and equality could also be in the running.
There is a singular lack of people wearing masks. This hints that we will all face a second wave of the pandemic when the summer heat is gone and folks start to head back indoors just as the autumn cold and flu season arrives.
The perfect place to live ? : https://www.outsideonline.com/2414110/serenbe-georgia-wellness-community
Dogs as Covid sleuths : https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.03.132134v1
Give this 30 seconds or so and you will see that statuary can carry a political message. Subtlety speaks with a quiet voice . Staging, hymn and camera angles all carefully chosen. The hymn I'm told is known as the Afro-American national anthem : https://youtu.be/0uAeXOTLzLw?t=5513
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Forget the statues, Bertie and I are beyond thrilled to catch sight of a croissant.
Cheers, Gail.
PS When I saw the lengthy list of co-authors of the 'dogs as Covid sleuths' study, I wondered for a moment if the dogs' names had been included!
Hari OM
Hmm, one can only hope that the next visit to the town will reveal an addition to the plinth which will enlighten the viewers of the statue's purpose. All I could think of when reading that article was "Stepford, Stepford..." YAM xx
I have just read the article on Serenbe. It reminds me of Poundbury. Out if interest I visited the Serenbe real estate website and clicked on a 3D tour of a house that I liked the look of. Hanging on the walls and in picture frames was a PON!
How funny that you "discovered" Serenbe from so far away! My daughter, SIL, and I live in Atlanta, and a couple of years ago, we and 4 members of his family rented one of the large homes there for the Thanksgiving holiday. The home was gorgeous and incredibly reasonably priced, and we loved our stay. We walked and enjoyed the animals, and the peace and quiet. Not sure what living there would be like. A realtor friend and his husband rented a place there for a year to see how they liked it, and ended up deciding it wasn't their cup of tea - the commute into Atlanta is what got them, I think...
Camille Claudel?
https://www.berthaud-sculpture.com/camille-claudel/
Inca and I have been meeting a good friend for breakfast out, for two weeks now, and we've had croissants! Really nice ones, in fact so nice that poor Inca doesn't even get a few flakes, never mind a curly bit!
Those nut covered cakes look fantastic - there must be half a kilo of nuts on each one!
I don't understand the resistance to wearing masks. People have spent months complaining about being at home and are not willing to do anything to prevent us from ending right back here in 2 minths🤦🏻♀️🤬😷
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