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[essayel]

Dear Graffitist,

Yeah, I know that you aspire to the heights of style and grace achieved by Banksy, and I sort of agree that you should be able to express your creative nature and have the opportunity to grow and blossom into a full fledged artist.

BUT

Do you really think that scrawling your name in foot high letters on an ancient monument is the way forward? We'll only scrub it off and wish the curse of a billion haemorrhoids upon you so if you're finding it hard to sit down you know why.

Exasperatedly yours,

various castle workers.

Comments

[irana.livejournal.com]

Oh my gods, it sounds like you're having one of my days. *snort* Bet the person can't sit for a week considering he's annoyed the lot of you.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Yeah definitely one of those days. I've just been informed that I've been doing the accounts wrong for the past 10 years and need to completely revise all my systems - this on top of six days being a 'roman slave' week after next.

*shrug* Our backs are broad. We can take it.

[irana.livejournal.com]

Well shite. You sure you're not working in my department over this side of the pond? That sounds like the sort of crap they would do.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

OMG. Monmouthshire County Council have been taken over by Turner!!!

Can't see it being the other way round.

Off to work now, catch you later maybe, if you have time to breathe.

[irana.livejournal.com]

God I hope so. *hugs*

[mzlizzy.livejournal.com]

Too bad they was only dumb enough to leave a name. It would have been much better if they'd been dumb enough to leave their phone number.

Graffiti on a modern building is bad enough, I don't even want to think about how bad it is on historic stone.

Hopefully the idiot got a lungful of paint fumes.

[yakalskovich]

How utterly tasteless of them.

Graffiti go with abandoned warehouses, smelly underpasses, and railroad bridges. They ought to be on elderly concrete or dirty bricks.

Old castles made of real stone? So totally un-hip for graffiti. If their co-graffitists and admired idols in the cities knew, they'd laugh their heads off.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

How's it going, now? and did they let you have lunch today?

I got back to work and found part of the car park cordoned off with 'Police Line - Do Not Cross' tape because of something nasty that happened last night.

Honestly, the mind boggles.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

He was seen in action by someone who called the police [the station is a two minute amble away] but when they hadn't arrived four hours later we assumed they weren't coming.

The paint comes off with cellulose thinners and a scrubbing brush but that's fierce stuff as well. We take the view that if the castle has taken everything the world can throw at it since 1250 AD including cannon balls, a bit of scrubbing's not going to hurt it.