Monday, July 11, 2011

Grave new world

We went to Kurri Kurri today for a spot of antiquing.
It was fruitful enough but what I really thought worth sharing was the unfolding future of the Hunter Valley evident on the trip there.

About half-way between Maitland and Kurri are several new housing developments with aspirational (and flood-defying) names like Darcy's Peak and Saddlers Ridge.
Inexorably, they're turning this:


Into this:


It's a beige-and-salmon suburban nightmare.
Even the street names seem destined to feature in some tragically ironic tabloid headline:


 Gave me the willies.

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