Mahayleyish

Kevin McClouds Grand Tour and Zebra Finches

Of simple grandeur and an impressive nature.

 I will describe them to fit my experience, not by being there or seeing them in their natural environment but by watching tv and looking up photos of the net.

  In fact I had been to some of these places but I had looked briefly, overwhelmed by the crowds, heat and a want for Fanta Lemon. And I have seen them but in a cage in a strange garden centre. £14.50 a pair. 

 Grand Tour notes

Hedonistic young aristocrats

Assaults the senses

Transform arrogance to the men who inspired the architecture of today.

Christopher Wren – capture unbritishness

Defies Gods laws of gravity

Unchanged for 500 years

Had their secrets that they want to keep to themselves. Methods weren’t fully discovered for 400 years.

Peep hole through

Bread melon water and wine.

behind a door that seemed as though it

wouldn’t open.dark inside, unwelcoming

it seemed as though it had just been a small

room. Through to Pets.

to face with a cage of budgies and to a

parrot room. as a hospital, radio

echoing, lined with cages, woops high

and one really low, voice.

on leaving eyea rabbitthe same breed as

Sooty. Mouse, chincilla, rats gnawing at the

right point, no hamsters. A lizard,

and then in egg cups in tupperware live

feed, shop store.

Back where we started beside budgies, pink

 parakeetsand beside them finches. Zebra

finches? but there wasn’t a sign.

an unventured doorway as we are about to

exit. What I was expecting to see. Rows of

tanks number a1, a2, the ones I had, ones

I hadn’t thought of. While squeezing

out my eye directed down. and on the mat

a floundered body.