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Date: 31 October 2006 15:22:24
This morning I walked past a man painting a Royal Mail post box.
Yesterday when I went to post a letter the post box was bright blue. It made me smile. Students' I thought, ‘...or perhaps bored ‘yoofs'!' They'd obviously wanted to have some fun. It's not a new joke, in my 12 years in this lovely ugly city I've seen a number of post boxes change colour, but I've never seen a job done as well as this one. Very little red was showing through the blue paint.
The man this morning was trying to restore it to the more traditional ‘pillar box red' colour. He didn't look like he was having fun, nor did he seem particularly well equipped to do a good job with his tiny inch-wide brush. I know I shouldn't have, but had to smile. I wondered if that was his full time job. Post box painter. It'd make for a pretty unique CV, I think.