[WillowTheWhisp]

I've just been out and photographed both sides of Broadway to see if I can decide why I hate the blue side so much and yet don't mind the yellow side.

Maybe it's the broken blue with colour co-ordinated breeze blocks showing through. Maybe it's the way years of dirt have been washed over the white by years of rain. Maybe it's the very whiteness and blueness as opposed to the more subtle yellow and grey. Maybe it's because it was stuck on the back end of an architecturally different building (the Town Hall) with no thought given to trying to blend the two. (Heaven forfend should you or I apply for planning permission to do something of a similar nature with our own property) whereas the Arndale block is a complete entity in its own right and proportionally acceptable. I dunno. I just know that the Woollies side doesn't look too bad, nothing that a bit of a clean up wouldn't put right, whereas the other side looks, and always has looked, hideous.

Note the puddle and how this lovely new surface drains so beautifully! It started to rain just as I was photographing the blue side and by the time I'd crossed over to photograph the yellow side we already had the beginnings of a small lake.