Twelve Months Twenty-Four Photos. Numbers Five and Six - March

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The month was mainly taken up with Egg Hunting but I did manage to do a few other things as well. The new Fourth Plinth installation was up. Not one of my favourites but, such is life. I find the artistic justification for the sculpture unconvincing but it is a temporary piece and will be going soon so never mind. Egg Hunting showed up art I probably wouldn't have found, the somewhat awkwardly posed Yuri Gagarin statue on The Mall at the British Council building and Anthony Caro in the Jubilee Park at Canary Wharf.

There was also the last demonstration against the selling off of the NHS before it was sold off by the Government that promised not to cut it or sell it off. It was a small affair that started off more like we were sitting shiva. Things were even winding down when suddenly some Subgenius/Anonymous types showed up and encouraged us all in to the road which, to everyone's surprise we did. After a bit of traffic blocking we started marching up the road towards Trafalgar Square. it was there I left the party and, having no leaders it was easy for the group to allow itself to be kettled somewhere around Charing Cross for a few hours. The National Health Service deserved better than some fifty or sixty people asking the Government if they would mind, terribly, not being pillaging scum.