The local birds love their neighbourhood eating place. They love its naturalness, its friendly comfortable rightness. No novelty here. No makeovers and refurbishments. High Street coffee houses are always changing. Some even try to look retro. This genuinely is old and has evolved accumulating years and bits of nature, friendly and natural. Please do nothing to change that. All around we see old walls rebuilt and looking neat and tidy. What's the value in that? Just look at the decor here. Surely there are people even in this philistine age to appreciate these marvels of unmanaged nature? We don't, do we, need to pretend, like reproduction William Morris?
These walls have their own flock wall coverings, no manufacturing necessary. Just stand back and wait a few years.
Mosses are abundant.
Lichens everywhere. Who cares about the terms but there are fruticose lichens.....
Crustose lichens ...........
Foliose lichens ...........
Sundry delightful combinations overlapping .....
Sadly the fungi wedged in the wall proved to be nothing of the sort, just a small sponge ball - but a brilliant disguise.
Why is this wall and its caff not a tourist attraction?
Time for a pretentious generalisation?
Is this humble wall caff a microcosm of Blacka at its best? Once managed but flourishing in the luxury of neglect.
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