RE: Random Rodents And Cosmic Alignments
What a strange juxtaposition. The grafitti artist maybe spotted a rat in their peripheral vision and got subconscious inspiration.
We have lots of rodents in Glasgow too. On the underground you can see mice scurrying about on the tracks, and I once spotted a large rat sitting on the edge of a dustbin near Charing Cross (Charing Cross Glasgow, not London). More bizarre was the squashed corpse of an enormous toad on a west end pavement...
Yesterday I was doing outdoor climbing at Auchinstarry, a reclaimed quarry. There was a dead mouse at the foot of the climb we were doing. We were wondering if it was an omen :D! The poor rodent had probably frozen to death while trying to get back to its burrow. I wasn't able to take a photo, as it was so cold my phone suddenly packed in!
I know that place in Glasgow as I used to work there back in the day :)
In many ways, it is similar to London in that urban decay way. I remember (unwisely) walking around and trying to photograph the Gorbals and seeing quite a bit of it there. I should probably do a story about that one day haha.
You worked in Glasgow! Yes, you'll definitely have to write a story about that :)