Someone around the Cavendish Grove area (on The Avenue, as you can see from my photo) saw this felled tree. Too heavy to be fully removed, the tree surgeons have chopped it back temporarily. Within a couple of days a large face appeared, blowing a raspberry at the storm that had cause it injury.
The cycle lane is impassable but this did make me laugh. I don't know who did this. It could have been "youths", students (a large student population lives nearby), it could have even been the tree surgeon folk themselves. Whoever it is, as much as I tend to detest graffiti - I salute you. You made me giggle.
Ordinarily I would probably grumble to myself that "this is for bicycles!" (...seeing as there is limited space for them anyway...) But then I began to think - why don't motorcyclists get securing points? A few people I know ride them, as does my Brother who loves classics. It would surely reduce the risk of theft.Then I noticed his friend....
City Centres can be bicycle graveyards. A rider locks up a cheap bike, comes back to find a wheel gone. The bike is so cheap that they aren't that bothered about it and just abandon.
Councils then come and remove the long dead, and the ones in good nick are passed on to recycling schemes and risen from the grave like bicycle zombies to ride again.
Looking at this little fella you can see that the frame and fork might well still be in good enough nick to one day fly about around town. Lazarus rides again.