41. Accidental Urban Archaeology on Lounge Ruminator 🎙
@martinfeld Glad the simplicity discussion is staying with you. 😀 As for 'forgetting what used to be there’ — you're not old enough yet. It seems to be true that as we age we forget what is there now and remember what used to be there. It's a humourous trope about rural folk: “Turn left at the old church” (which burned down 20 years ago with no trace today). But I’ve been doing something similar for years now. In Wellington my partner and I would sometimes be discussing how something took place “down by Raffaele”, where the hotel we were referring to had several years since changed to some new thing whose name was totally unmemorable. And so on. It's a bit scary really.
@Miraz The bit that you mentioned about the church is quite funny! Also I don’t blame you for hanging onto that old name and place. A local shopping centre here that was once Westfield Figtree is now Figtree Grove. It has been that way for several years now and everyone uses the old name. 😂
@martinfeld I was thinking more about that. You go past a place for years, each time more firmly embedding the name (through repetition). Then it changes, so you haven't learned it yet. I bet that plays into it a bit — a side effect of ageing rather than a result.