A Monster in the Yard

As the work to finish the yard behind my house is progressing, there are small surprises almost everyday. Some better, some worse. This morning I discovered this monster.

I don't really know what this orange thing is supposed to be, if it is a piece of art or a toy for the kids, but anyway it is gross. Absolutely horrible. I don't know exactly what is under the plastic sheeting, but I think it has a mate as well..

To get a day at sea

Today I had a great day at sea! I was out sailing with a friend of a friend. It was not really planned at all but we met at an after work in a bar yesterday together with some other friends. When this friend said he planned to go sailing today I more or less invited myself to join. As I don't know him very well I wasn't sure wether he meant it or not, but indeed; we went sailing, togehter with his sister.
Some times it pays off to be a bit cocky. Today it gave me a great day at sea!



This September has just been fantastic!! So warm and sunny!! It feels like it is still real summer, only with a little higher air and a slight tone of red and yellow among the green. I hope it stays like this for a long time still. We were talking about swimming today, although we didn't, mostly out of laziness I think, I don't think the water would have been very cold.

Bad Planning

Sometimes I wonder what is really the driving force behind some spatial planning. Quite often you see parks or school yards etc where the paved paths are nowhere close to where people want to walk. And as people are generally lazy of course they walk where they want to walk and new spontanous paths occurs. Sometimes the park planners accept the fact and let the new paht get pawed, which I think is good, sometimes they start counter strike and do everything they can to prevent people to walk where they want. Mostly a rather futile fight.
Now I have a very near example of this rather bad planning (in my more malevolant moments I call it fascist planning). The house where I live is new and the yard is just being finished. From the yard there is the entrance to the bicycle room and the laundry room. For long there was no paved paths at all but as people had to walk there they had put some wooden boards to walk on, but now quite recently they have fiished the paving and now we just wait for them to plant some plants and bushes etc. When the paving was done I really asked how they thought when they made the plans!!



You enter the yard from the street to the right. If you then want to go to the bicyle room would you then prefer to take the straight (pink) way or the prescribed (yellow dotted)way?! I would guess the pink! Especially as the temporary wooden board that was there before the paving was placed exacly there. I just wonder what they were thinking.

Since I took this picture they have now put some stands for bikes just exacly where all normal persons would want to go (the pink line), just to prevent people from walking there. Hence I believe those planners are more of the fascistoid kind.