Revolution in colour

[freakiness]

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/civics/brightly-painted-stairway-in-turkey-starts-color-revolution-ag...

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A 64 year-old man in Istanbul decided to brighten people's days by painting rainbow colors on the old, gray, crumbling stairs near his house.

When municipal officials sent workers after nightfall to hurriedly repaint the stairs gray, a quiet revolution started on Twitter.

Not only did volunteers come out to repaint those stairs that Huseyin Cetinel had spent hundreds of dollars on, they started painting other stairs and walkways in other cities around Turkey posting photos on social media.

A very colorful Pandora's Box had unwittingly been opened.

[amber-eyed-girl]

And..it is 37 degrees right now so I am not wearing black.

It's charcoal.

[spotweldersfriend]

😄

I remember those bright change rooms.Sandringham?

[amber-eyed-girl]

Brighton beach bathing boxes.

[spotweldersfriend]

Close, but no cigar:-)

[debra9275]

Love the story freaky -:)

Spot, Sandringham is just a stone's throw away , so you were very close. The bathing boxes are all along the coast, even up as far as Mornington/ Mount Martha.

Ii's great that they've been preserved, they cost heaps to buy if one comes onto the market now. They have no power or water, just sheds on the beach really.


Wish I was at the beach today, it felt hot, but it didn't reach the forecast maximum today

[spotweldersfriend]

Hot here too debra and extremely humid which doesn't agree with me.I'd rather 44c in Mildura than 36c here.So I had a day off:-)
I remember those old red tardis phone boxes were sold off in the eighties.A pub,possibly in Glen Iris,bought 2 of them and turned them into the entrances of the ladies and gents toilets.

[freakiness]

That sounds like a good idea.

[debra9275]

hey I think I remember seeing a couple of those at a pub somehwere. 

Those old red phone booths also sell for a small fortune these days (not as much as the bathing boxes though)

I know you've had it tough re: the weather in SA this summer

hang in there

[spotweldersfriend]

The older I get the more I hate summer.I've got a pen friend in Russia. A lovely lady.It's minus 35c where she is.I wouldn't mind that temperature right now:-)

[lind9650]

Lotsand lots of years ago, when I first came to Australia, when driving through some Melbourne suburbs I saw quite a few houses with bright blue trims and doors. When I asked my husband about the copy cats blue, he told me that those houses belonged mostly to Italian families. They used to get some special meats, smallgoods and fish delivered to their homes, and it made it easier for the delivery man to find their houses.

I thought that was a brilliant idea, as some Italian person lost in the suburbs and with little english would know they could find someone to talk to and ask directions.

As I said, that was many, many moons ago.

Life was more peaceful then.