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4 Jun, 3 tweets, 3 min read
What is your hometown famous for? What is your regional speciality? Any particular food, season, flower, color, shape, product, slang, that you could develop into a small, lightweight relatively cheap foodstuff and start making at home to sell as a local souvenir? Do it! ImageImageImageImage
Mayors think that a town is all about business parks and tax breaks and commuting opportunities and regulations. What it is really about is local people and their local culture. Developers somehow ALWAYS miss this. Mayors MOSTLY miss this. #Localism might save your life. ImageImage
In fact most of them do their best to destroy local culture. The Whitechapel Bell Foundry for example, est. 1570 is destined to be turned into a hotel. The correct action is to turn a parking lot next door into a hotel, and get tourism from the foundry.

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Székelykapu (Székely gates) are the traditional wooden carved double gates of the Székelys, a Hungarian people living mostly in modern Romania's Transylvania district. There are two openings, the larger tall enough for a fully loaded hay-cart, the smaller for people on foot. Image
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The importance of eaves: Norwegian test on how fast driving rain can penetrate a single brick wall cladding (the most common modern brick construction). It took between 20 sec. and 20 min. depending on how well the mortar had been laid, and especially the critical head joints.
Depending on how much rain you get, you really want to invest in proper eaves, because the wall water proofing that is 100% effective has not been built yet.
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The trad way of keeping rice at home is in a komebitsu, literally "rice box". These days most people store their rice in plastic containers underneath the sink (because the containers are ugly which is the worst place in a kitchen to store rice. Wood looks great and is healthier.
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Handmade kiri wood komebitsu can cost up to 200 USD for the fanciest models with different compartments and portion boxes etc. but the cheapest ones are just recycled boxes that fancy articles came in. Here is a nice mid-range box.
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27 May
Charming illustration of the Alsatian city of Colmar in the 15th century, with a population of maybe maybe 4000 on 0.4km². To walk from the south gate to the north would have taken about 10 minutes, but to the Western gate it might have taken 14 minutes. Perfectly human scaled.
At the time, Colmar was run partly by its twenty professional guilds, whose members counted about half of the population, the other half were farmers and gardeners. It had seven monasteries, three churches, free hospitals, free lodging for the poor, travelers and foreigners.
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“Trust the experts.” Yes, but which ones? The microbiologists who for over 30 years have been saying wooden cutting boards are much safer than plastic cutting boards? Or the food safety experts who forced every restaurant you have ever visited to use plastic cutting boards?
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This hiking path hasn't been used in a while. It is also crawling with venomous snakes so I stomp my feet going forward like a deranged elephant. This is also in Tokyo by the way.
Beautiful. Not edible.
This part of Tokyo hasn't been adequately cleared of unexploded ordinance so every time you step on metal you wish for an old beer can.
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