I’m heading back home on Monday, for a few days: my trips back home to the City of my birth and roots are becoming too infrequent for my liking and there’s a few things that I want to re-visit that stir up old, happy memories for me such as the RSPCA watering vessel for dogs on Clifton: just an old pot thing, you probably think, but to me it represents a time when I would go to the old Clifton cinema, as a 6 y.o. on a Sunday afternoon with my sister. I had a look on google street view a couple of weeks ago and bugger me, it’s still there! I don’t know if it’s the one that I saw in the 60s but the fact that, even if it’s a replacement, it’s still offering dogs a well earned drink: maybe after a romp in the Homestead or along the riverside, shows that someone still cares.