‘Jaundiced of Claremont’ – a Broughton resident with many and varied strong opinions – recently remarked to the Spurtle that the sure sign of a neighbourhood going downhill is when even the cars start getting tattoos.
He was referring to a distinctive pink Mini, often seen locally, whose surface adornments promote a Morningside tea house.
We disagree, rather like it, and think that – if anything – it adds to the area.
However, it seems that the car itself is less happy. It has, says ‘Jaundiced’, for some time missed an ornamental teapot on the roof, grown more and more dinted, and is now suffering serious damage to its exhaust. All these problems, he contends, are the result of parking in bad company and annoying sleeping policemen.
Spurtle approached the tea house in question for comment. A spokeswoman told us the teapot had been deemed a menace to pedestrians and will be replaced soon by a lightweight sponge cake. The exhaust, she contends, is a martyr to rust as much as to speed bumps.