Remembrance 1

When we were out at the weekend, young Ewan asked why there was a tree called James McDonald Stirling. We explained that someone - his family or a friend - planted it to remember Mr Stirling. But at the back of my head was the feeling that there's something odd not about the need to remember, but the need to place something somewhere so that other people who never knew the person in the first place can 'remember'. But they can't remember, can they?

Anyway, I thought I'd move off the Textures and spend this week on Remembrance. The strange things done to remember and remind. If you're interested, I've added some failed / rejected textures to my Blipfolio.

I don't know who Thomas Sefton Moffat was or why he will be always remembered but he must have the least attractively located seat in Edinburgh (unless you know otherwise) right on the edge of Queen Street, at exhaust level within touching distance of the traffic. If sitting is the act of remembering, Mr Moffat is less often remembered than he might have wished. An odd location when it seems that Presentation Seats (as they are known by the Cooncil) can still be sited in most parks in the city.