As promised prior to my sojourn to the Dordogne, I had a list of items I needed to bring to your attention. The first one is to do with the Launderette sign across from the Castlemead Estate on the Walworth Road towards Camberwell Green.
Well you may remember how I've recorded and enjoyed it's steady deterioration over the last 6 years. Nearly entirely bereft of vowels I wanted to see just how long the managment within would accept it as a valid means of communication.
Anyway, it was with abject horror and not all small amount of amazment that the sign has been repaired. I KNOW! The overriding vernacular of this part of Southwark is undoutedly 'post apocalyptic' and anything that strays from the pattern of a downward slide into anarchy should be met with suspicion!
So, the sign has been repaired, its lost vowels re-instated. But the most amazing thing is that, not only have the letters been replaced (they are profiled red acrylic on spacers), but the letters are the same typeface and size. UNBELIEVABLE in an area where painting the missing letters back on to the brickwork behind would have been seen as more than adequate.
Thankfully, there is one aspect of this disturbing development which re-assures me that the Walworth Road is still millenia away from gentrification and being renamed 'Camberwell Quarter' and that is that the red acrylic's hue doesn't match.
Hoorah, mediocrity is alive and well in Camberwell (that would make a nice slogan for the local council).
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