Show Us Around Your Neighbourhood

[Duke Mantee]

10 minutes ago, Maynard Friedman said:

This morning’s permitted walk.

Is this the first pic we’ve seen of you? 

[Double 0 Soul]

Right then super-peeps, who's next?

[Maynard Friedman]

Animal topiary this evening.

[MJF9]

On 4/18/2020 at 1:53 PM, unders said:

There was the green hardback book called Where Is Silas? My copy is gathering dust somewhere in the loft but I did find this on my little rummage.

 

@unders I bought this... an amusing read... thanks for the link... now where to cop some Ju Ju Buns???!

[unders]

Not a bad way to pass a few minutes during lockdown. As for Ju Ju Buns, Mr Spoons is probably your best bet. 

Glad you enjoyed. 

[Broark]

Cheating a bit as this is my parents neighborhood and not mine. We live about 2 miles southeast, across the highway. The not so nice part of town. 
This neighborhood is called Travis Heights, it's directly south of downtown Austin across Lady Bird Lake (more affectionately known as Town Lake by most locals).
It's become a very desirable (see: overpriced) part of town to live in. It's conveniently close to downtown, major highway, good bars and restaurants. 
My girlfriend and I enjoy driving over to my parents place and walking around thinking about where we'd like to live if we could ever afford it.
One thing I really like about this neighborhood is the system of alleys that connect all the homes, makes for great shaded walking in the summer.
Most houses have no driveways due to the neighborhood being on a large aquifer, so each plot of land must have a certain percent of watershed runoff.
Also the variety in style of homes is nice. There's small bungalows, more modern buildings, old houses. No real rhyme or reason which I like.
There are also a ton of massive protected live oak trees, you can see them throughout a lot of these photos.





There's a creek that runs through the neighborhood as well.

[Guest]

nah

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 21, 2023 by justintk

[Double 0 Soul]

5 hours ago, Broark said:

Cheating a bit as this is my parents neighborhood and not mine. We live about 2 miles southeast, across the highway. The not so nice part of town. 
 

Now come on B. the whole spirit of the thread is to show what's actually there, remember "the more mundane the better" nontheless it's a nice neighbourhood, where does all the water come from to keep it looking so green, is there a nearby trickle of a river that was once a raging torrent?

It's a green and pleasant land in the UK but on the flip it pisses it down with rain for 10months out of the year and the few weeks/decade when it is as dry as Texas everything is scorched af

Edit- nvrmnd, Ive just read the line about 'aquifer' .. move along people..nothing to see here

Edited May 2, 2020 by Double 0 Soul

[Double 0 Soul]

Streets made for skateboarding @justintk

[Double 0 Soul]

It's sometimes tricky for us Brits (or should i say, me) to grasp how much space you guys have in the US... yeras ago i asked a friendly-forum member

"Next time you're passing such and such a shop can you swing by and buy me such 'n such and send it over?"

"Hmm.. that's downtown"

"I'm in no rush, whenever your passing"

"Im not, downtown is a 3.5hr car journey for me!, it would take me most of the day just to get there and back"

Oh snap! 'Town' is a 10min car journey for me...i can drive across the entire width of our counrty is 3.5hrs

[Guest]

39 minutes ago, Double 0 Soul said:

Streets made for skateboarding @justintk

This is about the emptiest I've ever seen it, even when I've been out at 3 AM there are more cars normally. But it would be a good ride for sure!

 

The scale is definitely different. I live in "Chicagoland" but it could take me an hour to get to Lake Michigan in Chicago. Most of the people I know in this area don't really go to Chicago any more (and not just because of the current events).

[Maynard Friedman]

Where exactly @justintk - handy to know for reference and an understanding of how extensive ‘Chicagoland’ is. I promise I won’t drop in on you!

[Guest]

No worries, I don't answer the door anyway! The town is called Wheaton. Basically directly west of downtown Chicago.

If you're looking at a map I would say "Chicagoland" continues on past me to about St Charles or Geneva. And the passenger/commuter train that runs through my town goes out to Elburn.

[redragon]

Out for a walk & jog this morning closeby so  a chance to document some of the houses & quirks around here.

I live in the middle of a housing complex on the Western part of the city (Jakarta) 

Location of my house is on the one of the main Street in & out of the complex so it gets very loud some time of the day from various vehicles coming through.

Across from my house.

Turning left...

Always fascinated by some of the house's design here, there is an obsession to go higher...understandable as flooding is quite common in this area but it creates a paradox (city is sinking fast, high rise make to load heavier which lead to faster sinking rate....more flooding)

Jog track, ~2 km or so through small sections of the complex. Surprisingly pleasant tracks to walk/run through...

(Next series of house's, I took while jogging through this tracks)

All of the house here used to look like this...span of ~40 years, some rebuilt, renovate, makeover to their own taste...creating weird mix of style.

Not supposed to use residential area for commerce but anything goes I guess...

Garbage duty..

Contrast

Vegetables peddler (they also sell eggs)

Not all houses are occupied...

Frequent occurance of flood around here (couple of times a year especially in rainy season) makes it not really desirable to live.

Shoe sole replacer.

End of the track.

It does go on but not as well maintained as this first section.

Closeby but not along the track.

Just love how crazy looking this house is, design is really out there...

Random: portable wash-hand station in the background for passerby.

Safety is always optional in this part of the world even in this crazy situation.

End of the run.

Hope all of the above is easy to read, I tend to ramble for Abit...

Cheers!

 

[Double 0 Soul]

Wow! beautiful..

[Geeman]

Walked a different route today, Selly Oak ,Brums university town towards the city centre along the old canal network.

Pics featuring the family,  if you can see past the camouflage 

mm

 

This guys been on the canal for years, upgraded to a hydro powered /solar panelled boat complete with towed greenhouse!

Also has a pedal powered raft, you know for popping into town!

 

Last but not least as it truly made my day.... good to see the local kids know how to build a great den! Although I reckon dads chipped in 

 

Edited May 3, 2020 by Geeman

[bartlebyyphonics]

Great posts all.

Especially enjoyed yours @redragon

so for me today... some more concrete....

lived in London some 25 years now: different areas in this order: Morden, Tooting Broadway, Putney, Brixton, Walthamstow, Aldgate (Tower Hill), Putney again, Stockwell, Camberwell (been here 15 years now)

as with any city each area is like a completely different town: the North South divide is real here, as is East West...

With Camberwell it used to be deep South and off radar as there was no Tube / Underground, but now it is slowly getting colonised... I splurge-rage on that in the denimbro version of this thread; no need for repeats, just find it on this page...

I have also posted pix of nearby Peckham when picking up a Boncoura piece from Alpha Shadows here

today we have corona-chan edition...

pt.1

some pix back in march of local mega-market cleared of products by the 4x4 drivers... no bread, or booze...

whereas in our local turkish supermarket industrial sized bags of flour and catering sized tins of tomato puree covered the gaps caused by frenzied shoppers elsewhere...

and in Peckham (a cough east of camberwell) a few weeks later the sterling Wing Tai supermarket had shelves positively bulging with rice, fish sauce, more greens than any other stores, and yes; for those needing to barter b_F for his CSF: lots of noodles...

my score - for lockdown dashi and ensuring chilli sauce supplies... 

some other lockdown pix of Peckham...

 

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then other directions... heading a little north of camberwell, one heads to east dulwich, a few yards up we witness something for Maynard's love of architectural juxtaposition... a famous comedian's house that takes its cues from the social housing opposite rather than the tracts of victoriana housing it nestles within... article on it here, old telly on it here, curtain twitching discussion group here

a little further on, bigger social housing facing off less resonant new developments...

& bonus over-wintering ice-cream van and the queue to get into the mega-mart...

a little further on and some rugged styled hyper-trimmed barber shots and nuanced leafleting...

... [part 2 follows...]

Edited May 3, 2020 by bartlebyyphonics

[bartlebyyphonics]

[part 2]

from emptied shelves to restricted movements...

some local park instances: 

a netted horse, a blocked sanctuary, an entombed shrine to abs...

and nearby, Kings College Hospital helipad where I presume those needing ventilation fly through the air day and night...

...

abruptly changing tack... and for another architectural tour... off camberwell church street is a hidden nook where studios, picture framers, gardening services and other small scale productions huddle from development (their neighbouring building - 'the piano factory' - a factory turned flats scenario...)

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and to keep to associated corona-chan theme (as well as embedded traces of recent history that flutter on regardless) ... a medley of windows and messages around and about the nearby area...

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& a favourite neighbour related graf from peckham...

...

[part 3 coming...]

 

Edited May 3, 2020 by bartlebyyphonics

[bartlebyyphonics]

part 3... [pls excuse the tedium...]

some random choices; a local painted car...

a tour up one randomly chosen street (all built since 1860 an excited elder gentleman tells me...) to see the various architectural style of just one South London road...

turn a corner, a painted house...

then jump shift from different ages of social housing cheek by jowl with the well preserved georgian and victorian housing (some of which were that quasi-derelict and squatted not some few decades previously... not necessarily those pictured you lawyer people...)

and to finish, turning deftly down a few other corners, another squirrelled away back alley; backstreet stables and garages becoming variously re-designed, re-purposed or decayed... with a witnessed cat with exotic markings and tagging collar...

and finally, to close, whilst looking at a nice window design, looked down and saw Volvo's equivalent to knightrider...

Edited May 3, 2020 by bartlebyyphonics

[oomslokop]

those squid-brand fish sauces are the best! good one bartles-chan! 

[mondo]

no Camberwell Carrot..?

[Maynard Friedman]

Great stuff Bartles, hopefully I can find the time to convey a fuller impression of the NW10/6/2 intersection but here are today’s dog-roaming musings - a bottle tree and a Buddhist temple.

[MJF9]

A bottle tree... what’s all that about... is it a student house?! Actually probably not as there would be much less tree visible.

[bartlebyyphonics]

20 hours ago, oomslokop said:

those squid-brand fish sauces are the best! good one bartles-chan! 

nam-pla is love, nam-pla is life: no kitchen should be without!

happy lockdown cooking people!

[Double 0 Soul]

I cooked today's tea on the BBQ in the rain, is there a persuit anymore British?

[redragon]

^

No scones or fancy cakes to go along with it?

You failed.

Edited May 5, 2020 by redragon
Stuff

[Geeman]

8 hours ago, bartlebyyphonics said:

nam-pla is love, nam-pla is life: no kitchen should be without!

happy lockdown cooking people!

If you ain't got nam pla in the cupboard you're not cooking SE Asian food properly!  I often make nam place prik dipping sauce 

 

Edited May 5, 2020 by Geeman

[Maynard Friedman]

You’ll have to look hard to see this one, photographed in my road.

Clue: it was inspired by Bartles photo of a  (I think) hand-painted car...

[Double 0 Soul]

This Phlegm van always makes me smile when i see it driving around Sheffield

[Maynard Friedman]

There used to be one called ‘Garyland’ too not that far away.