I'm still behind with my blog reading, but you mustn't miss Scary Duck's story about the football inflatables. ..Funny how trends suddenly appear and disappear again...
I recall the sense of indignation and outrage in Nottingham when Nottinghamshire's finest Boys in Blues, still looking for a role following their brutality during the miners' strike, decided to declare inflatable trees to be lethal weapons. Mind you, it did give the nice white middle-class boys from Buckinghamshire a genuine reason to be anti-police*
The demise of the football inflatable: on a par with the disappearance of the football rattle
*of course, times have changed, and I fully acknowledge that the police are, without exception, an asset to society, akin to social workers in their kindness. But that was the Thatcherite Eighties, a whole different world.
