An almost-poem which isn't really a Morlands thing...almost

... but it started like this on Gwell, a Glastonbury online forum. Anita (Marcella) posted this:

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I think this is SUCH a good idea - what about the Morlands site ...?

which isnt zoned for housing - but if a variety of Ecohouses were built as display , that might be possible

All the things we are supposed to be recycling and are carefully seperating - are piling up in warehouses
as pictured on the front page of the Sunday Mail last week
it would be an interesting challenge to see how they could be used for building

[...further down...]
ps - Im working on a design based on a chalet I stayed in when I was in the Pleiades - it is make of spun starshine on a pyramid of dreams
- but pebbledashed with discarded chewing gum to deflect the omega rays - it should be nice and cosy ; )

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Later, she also wrote the text below: I like the way it teeters on a fine line between prose and blank verse...

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I dont know if it would be allowed to happen
but I know that if it did - it would be a success
because it ticks so many boxes
and would work for different kinds of people

I dont hardly see the TV but last time it was on it was an episode of
Top Gear - with some blokes on teeny motorbikes travelling through Vietnam
and then there was a bit where thy had to construct something to get
to an island
and came up with various contraptions

at the risk of sounding like an old codger
though I dont swear unless I hit myself with a hammer
when i was young we had open plan - flat roofs - weird designs

Now from Wearyall/Wirrall hill looking down - the new house all look
just like the square plastic ones on a Monopoly board

my mum's friend had a bubble car
the roof hinged up and you got into it that way
I would have thought people would have been wafting around in silver
bubbles by now
the Internet has changed many things beyond what we could have imagined
but housing and transport is what we had in the sixties - but worse
and duller and more traffic and people cant even think of what to do
with a mountain of paper
- and Innovation is just that small glossy magazine that falls out
of papers and tells you about another way to heat your slippers or
clean your venetian blinds or repel cats - it is just sad

there has to be some way of enabling the fun and design energy of -
say - Top Gear
without the TrashIt approach

but the possibility that some things sink /fall down/ go mouldy is
part of experimenting
and to know what works and what doesnt

but the imagination and skills are out there ( as go into the Carnival
floats ! and/or the Piltdown festival )
nOT to mention te endless creativity of children which doesnt have
near enough outlets except mischief

and the media enthusiasm for Eco things AND challenges of all sorts

- and the need for somewhere interesting to take the kids in wet
weather and something for them to get involved with - its a a nobrainer

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Well, you can look down on Morlands from Wearyall Hill. And it could have been so good...
Many thanks to Anita (Marcella)