Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? as Broughton's juvenal delinquents never tire of mouthing up at the CCTV camera on Mansfield Place.
Who watches the watchmen?
In the case of the flowering oasis at the corner of Bellevue Place, security now seems to have been handed over to an unlikely couple of aliens.
The bespectacled pair discreetly observe the scene from behind foliage, all but invisible save for their bright yellow skin and powder-blue trousers.
(In the loosely hinged world of guerrilla gardener and local resident Christina ‘Granny’ Thomson, this passes for normal.)
Hopefully, their presence will not only deter people tempted to pinch plants from the beautiful spring bed, but also discourage any repeat of the mean-spirited and wanton destruction meted out to last month’s Easter display.
If it doesn’t, then the thieves/vandals/clumsy revellers/Saturday-night Humpty abductors have another problem to contend with.
An unobtrusive sign says the area is now under 24-hour video surveillance. We think it may also be bugged.
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@theSpurtle love that display! She does some crackers.
New Town Flâneur @NewTownFlaneur
@theSpurtle Regarding these juvenals, CCTV seems a senecal move, but I suppose we must be virgilant. We don't want any more horace stories.
@NewTownFlaneur @theSpurtle satis iam
.@theSpurtle The aliens would look more alien if their trousers were red, rather than powder blue.
@Protonmale @theSpurtle but surely they're Minions? Minions don't wear red trousers... #DespicableMe
Grant Ballard Minions are cool.