Monday 18 November 2013

Bin bags

Originally published 26 July 2010

Around this time I was commuting to work by train. Hastings early in the morning is not a pretty sight - those first few hours before the clean-up squads get to work belong to the seagulls, and there’s nothing they enjoy more than tearing apart a bin bag to get at the tasty morsels inside.

The dustbins are a bit of shorthand scene setting - they’re based on the ones Top Cat and his gang used to live in. There are no real dustbins in Hastings, everyone has been forced to use Wheelybins instead, something which explains the preponderance of bin bags and the resulting very fat seagulls in the town.

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