There are some pretty impressive walls here in Campbeltown. Some of them are in our garden. Tall, strong, and built without cement. They’re not going anywhere.

Walls are a necessary feature of life. Our body is full of cells, and every cell has a wall. Quite ingenious walls that keep bad things out and let good things through. In both directions.

In fact we all build walls in day to day life. As individuals and nations. A borderless world and a borderless life are both pretty impossible. We need them. But we often tend to focus on the “Keep Out” part of the equation.

Even castle walls though, built for safety and protection, need to be like human cells to a certain degree: letting things and people in and out. Because a good wall should be permeable. In both directions. As well as strong.

This Strunts song, Ranches And Mansions, is the story of a wall that as well as keeping people out, also keeps people locked in. There’s such a thing as a bad wall. Wall building is an ancient craft, and it’s hard to do it well.


Discover Fee In Front Of An Impermeable Wall