The past and the future

Sorry it's been so long, over the summer, since this blog was active. Time to address that now!

On a recent visit to Brighton, I saw this placard up on the hoardings of a building site (sorry about the quality of the photo).

""Excuse us while we remove yesterday & make way for tomorrow!"

In my view, this has it wrong in almost every respect - whether it's to do with buildings, or with past history or traditions in general.

'Yesterday' is not to be consigned to the rubbish bin, any more than it is to be grasped onto, come what may. Surely it's to be examined, analyzed, sometimes cherished, sometimes critiqued, and always looked towards as a potential source of value and of learned experience.

Equally, 'tomorrow' is not an excuse iconoclastically to blast through what's there just for the sake of newness.

I guess Luminar Leisure Developments thought they were being clever here. I have to say that they just made me groan.