u/elaine4queen

Ivan Morison and Heather Peak's project Soft Machines has been working on me over the time it's been up. My first reaction wasn't completely positive, I felt like they were kind of Telly Tubbies, and then when I read the blurb about them it just seemed tiresome and that might really have said more about my mood than any objective or even fully subjective response, just a reaction - nope.

I'm glad they're where they are because now I've seen them several times from different angles and in different weather. Taking the dog onto the Lawns in the morning they've become like friends who say 'Yoo hoo!' and now I feel like I don't want them taken down. I know that the materials are temporary and if they weren't taken down they'd wear away, but we already have the West Pier, and are somewhat habituated to watching a wearing away.

They're still a bit Telly Tubby, but in a way that I have become fond of.

There’s filming going on on Palmeira Square. I assumed it was Grace (it’s nearly always Grace) but unless it’s an unexpected time travel episode it’s not. Also the fire truck says London Fire Brigade. So it looks like Palmeira is playing London. The fire truck doesn’t look contemporaneous to the car, but I assume my casual opinion is not the same as whatever research they’ve done. When I was walking the dog this morning she stopped for a poo by the car and when I went to pick it up (the poo not the car) I noticed the car door was open a crack.