A little place of calm

Resumo: Mi volis iri en Londonon hodiaŭ, sed estas fervojoverkaro do mi ne scias nun kion fari kun la tago. Mi fotografis pli da grafitio.

My gosh, my 'resumo' in Esperanto is so boring, i don't know if it's even worth writing this post! I was going to visit K in London today, was really looking forward to it. I was just about to shut down the computer and make my way to the train station when i thought it would be a good idea to look up the times. That's when i discovered that there was engineering work again and basically i would probably spent about 6 hours travelling today if i went. So i'm going to go on Thursday instead.

I got up early this morning and took some more nemew photographs. Some have already been cleaned off but you can still kinda see where they were. Let me repeat: i want to see these cleaned off. I want Winchester restored to the beautiful city that i know and love. But there is something curious about the nemews which i think needs to be recorded for historical purposes.

I also saw some ducklings scavenging for food. It's not uncommon to see ducks wandering the streets of Winchester. Normally it's one of those moments when you think, "Ahhh, i wish i had a camera with me!" – and today i did! :)

Uhh, what else? Nothing. I'm really disappointed at not going to London. I don't know what to do with my day! Blah!

Resumo: Multaj grafitioj de unu vorto aperis en mia urbo la antaŭa semajno. Mi serĉas ilin por dokumenti la problemon.

In the early hours of Saturday morning, the letters 'NEMEW' appeared in 35 places across Winchester, painted with a brush and white paint. A 19-year-old has been arrested in connection with the crime and a clean-up operation is in place.

Before Winchester is completely purged of the nemews, i thought it would be interesting to find as many of them as i could and take some photographs, just as a documentation exercise. I don't approve of graffiti, and it upsets me that Winchester has been defaced in this way (it's not even pretty graffiti!) but i can't help feeling a little bit impressed that somebody managed to paint it in so many places in one night. As far as i'm aware, nobody saw it being done. It is impressive in that it is so prolific, and in a couple of places it must have been quite dangerous to do.

Surprisingly a search of the internet returned no image results. I would have thought lots of photos had been taken. So i have created a Flickr group: Nemew, Winchester and i welcome contributions for anyone who has seen this particular graffiti to take a photo, geo-tag it and add it to the group. Then we can see them on the nemew map.

I have only managed to find 11 so far.

It's not illegal or immoral to take photos of graffiti, is it? Even if it's on somebody's private property? I hope not!

Thank you to Jack for tipping me off about a few of them.