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Day #279/365: The Telegraph Pole Appreciation Society

The Telegraph Pole Appreciation Society-A Year In The Country-2Trails and Influences: Electronic Ether. Case #34/52.

The ether has given space, nooks and crannies to all kinds and manner of niche interests…

…although I expect the Telegraph Pole Appreciation Society is one of the more niche, even amongst the further flung of such crannies…

As somebody who can be endlessly fascinated by these interconnected parts of our societies’ infrastructure, I can appreciate the sentiment of such a site (although part of me hankers after days when such a thing would have been a hard to find samizdat stapled zine)…

And such infrastructure underpins some of the core themes touchstones of A Year In The Country; the film Threads, its cold war and beyond dread takes its name from such lines and well, threads, which bind a society together, allowing it to function and communicate and how easily disrupted such gossamer strands can be.

The Telegraph Pole Appreciation Society declares that its aim is to celebrate “the glorious everyday mundanitude of these simple silent sentinels the world over”, which has a rather fine poetic lyricism and intent.

The Telegraph Pole Appreciation Society-A Year In The CountryAmongst its pages you will find Pole Of The Month and Pole Appreciation Day alongside reporting on an appreciation of poles from around the world… and it’s a sense of appreciation that is woven tightly throughout this collection and body of work; though sometimes cast in jovial language, there is a genuine love for these utilitarian objects, an appreciation of their (possibly) accidental art.

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For some reason it reminds me of the fun, farce and foibles that are particularly peculiar to this particular island… it seems like but a hop, skip and step or two away from the trial and tribulations of Reggie Perrin-isms.

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Visit The Telegraph Pole Appreciation Society in the ether here.

Visit the creation of aviaristic refuges via listening post perching at Day #46/365.

 

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