It’s probably fair to say that no one jumps for joy when a block of flats is built just across the road. The reasons for the lack of jolly excitement are surely obvious. Views of a lush green garden are replaced by a those of walls, windows and balconies. Instead of the sun shining unimpeded through our kitchen window, it will loiter provocatively behind someone else’s walls.
But despite everything, there is something quite intriguing about a building site and these roof timbers were just asking to be photographed.
