Inexperience

When I used to use TB more regularly than I do now, one of the inhabitants used regularly to tell us stories about the nonsense & worse enacted by architects who knew how to work the computer and how to write about stuff, but knew little or nothing about buildings. No experience you know, not like us chaps.

Which I think is probably the explanation for the rather unfortunate appearance yesterday of a newish block of flats along East Street, between Ewell and Epsom. The (invisible) block across the road to the left, more or less the same in essentials, has been given a white finish which has not gone blotchy like this at all. They clearly used the right sort of paint, probably quite by chance, while this block used the wrong sort? Or no paint at all? I can imagine that BH would get rather cross about it if she lived inside.