"Conduct a field study of your local neighbourhood. If you were new to the area, what would be the three things that would stand out to you?"
1. Toucan shop!
2. Death Park (in Summer)
3. The wonderful closeness of both LIDL and ALDI
1. I'm not sure what the Toucan shop...well place...is. If you go right from my house and along a bit, there's a few things like car dealers (not ones you'd've heard of), random barbed wire fences with what looks like an overdone garage inside each one, a car wash, a tyre selling place, and whatever this Toucan place is. I just like the sign. (It's a big toucan. In case you weren't sure.)
2. In the summer the Death Park is lovely. You walk through it and there's just a few people sitting here or there reading, talking, or just lying in the sun. There's the people cycling down Marriott's Way on one side (with the occasional Sustrans person asking for money), and there's the river on the other side. One time I had a lovely conversation with an old man about his bike (which was also old). We discussed his old bike, my old bike, and probably how things aren't like they used to be or something. It was very nice. Then, finally, about three times a year you can sit in the park and listen to the mini music festivals which the local pub, The Gibraltar Gardens, puts on. (Or actually go to the pub, listen to the music, and add to that the joy of a beer or a cup of tea or an orange juice. Or whatever.) So it's a pretty good park, really.
3. This is just handy.
1. Toucan shop!
2. Death Park (in Summer)
3. The wonderful closeness of both LIDL and ALDI
1. I'm not sure what the Toucan shop...well place...is. If you go right from my house and along a bit, there's a few things like car dealers (not ones you'd've heard of), random barbed wire fences with what looks like an overdone garage inside each one, a car wash, a tyre selling place, and whatever this Toucan place is. I just like the sign. (It's a big toucan. In case you weren't sure.)
2. In the summer the Death Park is lovely. You walk through it and there's just a few people sitting here or there reading, talking, or just lying in the sun. There's the people cycling down Marriott's Way on one side (with the occasional Sustrans person asking for money), and there's the river on the other side. One time I had a lovely conversation with an old man about his bike (which was also old). We discussed his old bike, my old bike, and probably how things aren't like they used to be or something. It was very nice. Then, finally, about three times a year you can sit in the park and listen to the mini music festivals which the local pub, The Gibraltar Gardens, puts on. (Or actually go to the pub, listen to the music, and add to that the joy of a beer or a cup of tea or an orange juice. Or whatever.) So it's a pretty good park, really.
3. This is just handy.
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