I have just read that there has been an outbreak of the public art disease at Epsom Railway Station. It appears to be the result of an infection by the virus PAVsa14, first isolated by the Exeter Public Health Laboratory following the recent outbreak at Ilfracombe. A few days later, while still in a weakened condition, the station suffered the installation of some large and ugly public art by the University of Creation (http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/).
For once, the Home Office has done better. The decoration added to its new building (five or six years ago now) is not too bad at all - maybe the difference being that it calls it decoration rather than art.
Be alert! There may be someone near you planning to infest your visual field with something ugly or worse - and remember that not all the someones involved here have beards and not all of them mutter: some of them appear quite normal.
I ought also to record that the Sainsbury's Food Science Laboratory have failed to isolate the cause of the black fly disease in the admittedly small sample of red lentils which I submitted to them. Next time I get a good infestation I will bottle it up and send it to them with full details.
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