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Angels and Demons
When I was a wee nipper, attending the local scumbag comprehensive, someone wrote SATAN followed by a distinctly wonky pentangle in foot high white letters on a wall oposite the school entrance. Despite endless wearied scrubbings by the caretaker, the letters lingered on, providing a ghostly, but fairly accurate greeting for school visitors.

Years later, this motif was repeated to somewhat greater and more stylish effect whilst I was attending the University of York. Someone painted a series of bleeding angels and victorious demons, complete with bloodied footsteps all the way up along the entrance way to the library. Angels were certainly a theme in York, where even the pedestrian figures painted on the cycle/footpath acquired wings from time to time.

Once, whilst visiting Brough, a strong contender in a defintive arse-end-of-nowhere competition, I saw my only ever piece of pro-golf grafitti: 'Go Tiger Woods!'.
(Sat 5th May 2007, 12:08, More)