A Place Called England

A modest Edwardian terrace house in an amiable part of South Birmingham; one of many such houses built around that time on the back of Bournville chocolate and the industrial success of the city in general. With a palm tree in the garden! Maybe it's not so strange; to me it's an incongruity, a discord

A day spent in the long thin garden behind one of these houses, cutting and chopping and digging and pulling and planting. It's what the English do amidst rumours of ruin, war and armageddon