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Snow Dog

Aug 042012

The re-appearance of anonymous photos on the web has prompted strenuous denials from Battersea Dogs’ Home that cutbacks in the heating budget last January caused severe distress amongst some of their more short-haired residents.

Photo by Brian Parsons

[This piece originally appeared in Smoke 15.]

Tagged with: Animals, Battersea, Brian Parsons

Looking back through the clouds…

Please Pay At The Till

by Steve Lake
There were no pictures of staff smoking in the loading bay or walking out the side door with piles of “free” books, but maybe my memory is playing tricks, for working at Foyles in the 80s wasn’t unlike a trip on some fairly serious hallucinogenic drugs. There was, for example, the story of the disgruntled employee sowing seeds into the specially moistened carpets of the rarely-visited Philosophy Department on a Friday evening and returning on Monday to find a small field of cress, ready to be added to his sandwiches. [read more...]