Stephen McGannNothing of my past stays vertical. My childhood neighbourhood - my old school - reduced to rubble and replaced with something else that faded faster. I've watched prefabricated estates rise and die in the time it took for puberty to scar my face and ruin my grades. The constant rubble-making has given my life the feel of the cartoon train escapee, hurriedly laying new tracks in front of a speeding train locomotive as the old tracks disintegrate. The forced smile of interesting times.
simon gray@StephenMcGann Be thankful you don’t live in Birmingham, buildings are built and demolished in the city centre over the course of 15 years…
Hen Gymro Heb Wlad@simon @StephenMcGann Birmingham is wild. When I worked there it felt like they switched the roads around every weekend. I swear the place exists on some kind of space-time faultline where the road you took to get to work no longer exists - and never has existed - by the time you try to head home again. There are 1000s of Brummies who have to start new lives in a new part of town, just because they went out shopping one day and the road home disappeared!
@hengymrohebwlad @StephenMcGann I was once responsible for keeping up to date the ‘how to get here’ leaflet for one of the (at the time) Selly Oak Colleges; there was a point when I was sure the bus stops along Corporation Street we’re moving quicker than the buses
@simon @StephenMcGann "You can never get off at the same bus stop twice"
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