"Very much as I remember it, but smaller," she said. It's in a pleasant, quiet, leafy neighbourhood on the edge of the old city. 5 people used to live in this 2 bedroom apartment. There is a playground and a caged in synthetic soccer pitch from which emanated the sounds of the local men in their Sunday exertions.
"Around the corner there was a furniture store which was an object of my fascination." So we went to look for the store. We see a bus shelter ad:
And then we found the store. You couldn't miss it, really: a twelve story concrete ziggurat plonked down in the middle of suburbia. "Wow, looks the same," she said.
And then we saw this clock.
Priced at around 250,000 grivny, that's about 60,000 AUD in a country where the average monthly wage is 3000 grivny. "Wow, this place has changed!"
The place was a treasure trove, an Ali Baba's cave full of tasteless, hideous and disgustingly priced crap. There was an abundance of monkey themed furniture, especially monkeys holding up little tables. This snazzy little number was my personal favourite.
Wow that frog bog roll dispenser is the height of decadence! so many levels of decadence! once the paper's done where does one reload the frog for the next bog? or is he a one bog(roll) frog? it seems as if the frog was built around the roll of paper, truly the height of decadence!
ReplyDeleteIt seems to be a land of superfluousness, for example, that lady in the furniture store ad's belt, a little excessive no?
so much extravagance! the giant chocolate clock with wild birds! wait a minute... on second inspection... a rooster? could they not find a more impressive bird to put atop that super impressive clock? still, as far as rooster's go, that's an impressive one.
great photos!
ha! after looking at that clock again i noticed a minature bear and a giant flying fish... amazing
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