The King’s Meadow Garden

3/21/2025

In what used to be the hunting meadow of the Danish kings, an eighty year old gent named Martin has set up home. He has lived on a ramshackle old houseboat for the last two decades, but instead of rustic charm surrounding him, it’s a rubbish tip. It is actually the main depository for garbage for Copenhagen’s million-odd population. He largely has the place to himself where he scavenges what he can amidst the gulls, rotting waste, rusting cars - there’s even an old tram car that he attempts to cannibalise. Martin is a smart and erudite man, he’s no dosser and is remarkably adept at making his living from the tons of stuff his fellow citizens no longer want. The workers carry on their jobs around him, leaving him to rummage or just to sit in his deckchair reading an almost inexhaustible sup