Recently, I have been spotting a lot of pavement drawings around town. I'll normally spot them about 7:30 in the morning, on my way to work, or I'll spot them in the evenings on my way home and therefore rarely get to see the masters of these creations. But I love how they are always so vibrant and I think they cheer up the city, which recently seems to have got a bit grey and un-loved (council cut backs? who knows! We didn't even have Christmas light up last year! At one time they would have put on a huge Leicester Square style celebration with the local radio station and celebrities from the panto doing the big switch on!).They started appearing about a year ago when I spotted a drawing of the Mona Lisa with Pudsey Bear outside Hotel Chocolate (which therefore means it must have been for Children In Need in October!), shortly followed by a huge memorial for a local student, if I remember rightly, who had passed away. Various people had drawn something on different paving slabs outside of the library. It was quite eye catching!
More recently I have been seeing drawings of cartoon and game chracters dotted here and there. I was lucky enough to briefly watch one man drawing Taz at the bottom of the main high street. Which was good because he's my brothers favourite cartoon character!
I've never seem him there though.
I just hope the snobby people that our city seems to be full of, who write to the newpaper all the time (complaining for example that Canterbury is too good for a poundland!), don't fight to get these removed!
