The new houses look so genteel, the setting looks so appealing – and yet it’s all fake!
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- Andrew Amesbury. In this blog some names have been changed, some places have been disguised and some characters have been obscured. But the essential truth remains. You can e-mail me on andrewamesbury@live.co.uk
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- “It’s in the trees, it’s coming…”
- A phoney ersatz existence
- The shopping mall is surrounded by huge car par...
- The team collecting the shopping trolleys enjoyi...
- Radiating out from the shopping centre, empty r...
- Ignoring the natural features of the land and t...
- The new houses look so genteel, the setting loo...
- The Prince of Wales criticised modern architectu...
- One of the housing estates even had a make-beli...
- They came back full of stories
- Everything seemed grey and watery
- Closer to the Brittany coast lots of little islan...
- The only picture I took inside the granite citade...
- Side of the house at La Harillais - the sun ruine...
- The house at Rostrennon.
- House on the left, tumbledown wooden barn, stone ...
- A long drive back to St Brieauc where Simone and I...
- I felt as if the weekend was going to be a wild go...
- Thus will begin my journey to France
- An illusion of strength and substance
- What I should have done
- A discount store in a run-down shopping centre
- He has got his act together
- The vanished farm
- Nothing now remains in the field opposite the R...
- I realised how influential this project would be
- The office soccer team has fallen apart amid ac...
- In a shop window
- A compromise
- Reminders of past glory
- I love these wrought iron gates. In particular,...
- In a big stone room attached to the church were ...
- One of the sixteenth-century knights, in very sm...
- The knightly dude’s coat of arms, in painted ala...
- The warrior line continued into the twentieth-ce...
- Old tyres in a field.
- A nest of vipers
- On the way home I each evening I pass this ruined...
- The outbuildings were constructed of stone, and l...
- At the back, beside what was once a walled garden...
- “In Marketing, the first thing you market is yours...
- She abruptly broke off saying "Excuse me, there's ...
- Yesterday evening. Graduations of gloom as the du...
- This is a very poor photograph (I'm ashamed of ...
- Another train journey
- I’m just as good as you
- This power station looks... er... powerful in ...
- Extremely deep and very cold
- The big white flowers on our magnolia grandiflo...
- The poor old cat
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