Lesley's Loot

  This posters mocking our obsession with fitness combined with laziness. That said it was not long ago that people never bothered disposing of their dogs waste, they’d just let their pooch do it where ever they wanted unless you were more of a considerate person and even then you’d see it on the sides of pavements. In some cases you’d smell it too. It’s been some years since I stepped in some dog muck. Worse still when I was a child I’d been rolling down a bank at school and had come home with foul smelling dog filth in my hair; poor mum had to wash it all out. Sensibly in this case it’s all down to health and safety these days, so people are fined heavily if they’re allowed their pet to do it’s business in the street. There are now specially designated bins and bags and that take care of all that these days. Now that’s progress.

  Auugh, this little strange object was unearthed by workman in our garden. It must have been accidentally abandoned by my brother just as he was being called in for tea, back in the 1970’s, or in from the coming rain or finding another distraction like a friend coming round to play. I’ve since popped it back, probably to be found again in years to come by another relative, perhaps my brother’s grand child or even great grand child wandering what it is they’ve found. It’s embossed product details reveal it’s been made in Hong Kong,1973. This country was where most our child hood toys were made; cheap labour I’m guessing.