Hoddle Street/Mirror mirror

A walk at Hoddle Street found both joy and despair. Joy for the beautiful red building looking magnificent from the waking bridge over the street. Joy to walk about in a unique mirror shop with the most amazing displays one could imagine. Joy interacting with lovely local people.

Despair at the deserted shops and messy graffiti everywhere. Its as if nobody cares. The feel is of a wasteland with a couple of beautiful weeds struggling up though the cracks and displaying beautiful flowers.

This area is nearly ready to become a dystopian backdrop for movies about the end of the world. I really hope some of these places can be saved before greedy bulldozer weilding developers move in. Across the track there is already the beginnings of high rise slums.Read more