Doors 300 – Doors of Buxton (part III), April 2024
Coming home from a holiday can be a tricky period, especially returning to work immediately afterwards. I still haven’t cleared the accumulated emails from last week and feel like I am very much on the back foot. I don’t think that there is any quick solution to this situation, other than to take early retirement (not a financially viable option) or to not take any leave (well, that’s not happening). So I simply take the heat, keep calm and carry on.
The point of the story is that I have limited time to do justice to Thursday Doors, a valuable constant landmark in my routine that offers me a weekly mindful moment.
I visited Buxton back in April last year as part of a team meeting which we combined with a tree planting opportunity, supporting a project called LIFE in the Ravines. Derbyshire is a fair schlep from Bristol, so I stayed the night in the spa town of Buxton and spent an early hour the next morning wandering round a town I had never visited before – an opportunity to capture a few doors. This week’s doors highlight the dark stone buildings and feature a water fountain, the source of the famous Buxton spring water company.
Something that bothers me about so many doors that I have photographed is the tendency to use them as noticeboards. Is this a UK thing, or does this happen world-wide? Health and safety notices, ‘please use other door’ type notices, adverts and so on, ruin the overall appearance of a door, and while sometimes interesting, show a deep-seated lack of respect or indifference towards doors. Enough said.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s Thursday Doors post.
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