Just when You Thought it was Safe to Go Out......

Put your Best Dress and your Best Suit On !
We have a Special Edition to Celebrate, during the process of Spring Cleaning, and Good Ole`Clear-Outs......get down and dust people.
Apply a soft-off-white ( but NOT Magnolia Paint...) to the Hallway Walls, fill any existing holes with Loove....err....for all Estate Agents.....and :
Apply this WTF, mmmm, errr, erhhm...."Flying Cuckoo Clock" to your Glory-LandMark-Entrance Wall !!

"THE BRADFORD EXCHANGE"....sounds rather British, old chap, is the Proud Producing Company, yes :  here in SWITZERLAND.
And, this Baby, is most definitely SWISS.
I mean there are 5 Swiss Flags, all over it, flying, and yes, flying.

Inspect closely, would you please, Ladies and Gentlemen.
Auntie "JU" is coming to Stay.
She takes 3 AA Batteries to work.
She is Classically Sculpted, to a High Quality Standard.
Hand-Painted.
Quartz Clock Mechanisms.

Let us Proudly COMMEMORATE 75 YEARS of Dear Auntie JUNKERS JU 52 Aeroplane - with this CUCKOO-replaced by An Aeroplane-CLOCK.
The Aeroplane is still in use Today, and can fly to 3,000 metres up, and at 170 kms an hour :

It is a German, Transport, Military, and Civilian, Aircraft from 1930`s - 1950`s.  It was also produced in France and Spain.
In it`s Civilian role, it flew with over 12 air carriers including SWISSAIR, as an Airliner, and Freight Hauler.

Ah, "Auntie JU 52".

Don`t misinterpret me - I Like Aeroplanes, and it would be Wonderful to Fly an Aeroplane one day....on that;
" To Do List - To Try, and Get Done - Before You Die "......
And, well, we all have some kind of a Nostalgia About Something - no ?

BUT - A Cuckoo Clock, that has the Aeroplane come out of it....on the Hour...every Hour....
Emerging from its Hangar, to fire up its Engines, to make a " Unique Sound ".....
Like an Authentic Junkers Ju 52 Aeroplane Motor.....
ROARING in the HallWay.....
Is Cheap and Corny.

Yes, and it does exist here in SWITZERLAND - the err : Cheap and Corny.
It`s not all Exclusive Design, with Sleek, Subtle, Sheened, Gotta Be in The Club - Logos and Brands.
And, that`s fine ?
Addresses " The Balance "...??

But, this one`s a Box won`t be Ticking the Yes - Ja Box , with any kind of a Tick - Anytime.
Corny, but Not Kitsch Enough for CFC  ,-)

Here is the Link to "The Bradford Exchange" Website, at DoT.CH, for Switzerland :

http://www.bradford.ch/product_info.php/info/p799_Tante-Ju-Hangar-Uhr.html/XTCsid/0fe4eb5e0f424994de2af21301569561


Frighteningly British, Back When " THE EMPIRE " was in Play.
ENJOY :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxX7YW_97QU



Until Next Time. Thanks For Reading.
Yours, CFC x

......Derelicte......

        

Couldn`t fight the overwhelming desire to Time Travel-slash-Hibernate the Cold, since January.
None such the excuse....Whatever...Back To The Word....
Now we are March, Manic with Flowers; Peeping and Breaking up the Weeping of; Winter.  Many of them thriving in, err, somewhat less PRISTINE SWISS ARCHITECTURE.....




Have yet to "Discover"...in the interests of Curiousity and Contrasts....and not: Erhm : Dumbed Down "Journalism"....WHERE ARE THE DELAPIDATED DUMPS, SQUATS....and...not all part of the same "Bag" - NO GO AREAS ??? Of this, here, SWITZERLAND...?

Surely - HOW can it Possibly Be - ALL (?) - as in the previous 2 Posts of PICTURESQUE PERFECTE ?            
                                                                          

 Or - is this a Negative Voice of Cynism ?

Yes - there ARE less, Attractive, and less Well-Maintained Houses and Appartment Blocks...all depending on your standards and norms, of course...

There is also A LOT OF NEW BUILDING going on,

especially in the "Suburbs" of ZURICH, Flats are on the rise.
As with any Major City, Property to Rent is More Spacious and Less of a Monthly Cost....that bit further out from the "Epicentre"....

In one such an area, about 30 kms, or so, from DOWNTOWN ZURICH, as it is referred to here, in a somewhat AMERICANISM of Vocabulary - Say What ?!

"Please find the above and the following" smack-back-down in the middle of a VERY WELL-2-DO SWISS VILLAGE.

An ABANDONNED HOUSE, that has had its "Glory Days"....

....where THE YOUTH (?)... and THOSE IN DISTRESS (?)...and THOSE into THE OTHERS.....make some time, space, shelter, rest, and games.

Is this OBJECTIVE; SUBJECTIVE; POMPOUS PARAPHENALIA;SO WHAT ?  There is Plenty Worse; and What of the Fascination-Really ??
All so "Done Before"...?

Now, this may be Called : "DERELICTE", after the (Comedy) Film of 2001 :

However - CFC, is no : "MUGATU", taking inspiration from the Homeless on the Street to "Design" a Fashion Collection...All in the Worse of Possible Tastes...

This First Installment, TO BE CONTINUED....fulfills.... part of "The Brief", to defend the part of The Mission... as stated in the "More About" Section of this BLOG :

 .....demystifying switzerland......

Until Next Time.  Thanks For Reading.
Yours, CFC. x