I just stood beneath a billboard advertisement offering the financial services for a bank. Its opposite a petrol station selling crisps, cakes, alcohol and of course oil based fuel :). Traffic on the street crawled slowly past a fake tan salon, a pizza takeaway, a news agent selling booze, porn, scratch cards and until recently, I imagine, The News Of The World. The pavements were full of commuters scurrying to their increasingly insecure jobs in tanning salons, off licenses, banks. And there I stood smoking a cigarette. When I finished my last puff I tossed it through a fence into the remains of a building site beside a train station. Within 60 seconds I was fined £75. The young guy who fined me explained that the local authority was doing so “In an effort to improve our environment” it’s a funny old world. :)








