LOCAL RULES (3)

The 31 December deadline for putting up new post boxes has come and gone. It seems that most people waited until the very end, and then did it during the Christmas holidays. Whatever; there are now lots of new boxes lining the streets of the town where I live.

Today I handed out the new flyers for the next 8-week programme at the local cinema, so I had the opportunity to look at a number of these boxes close-up. Some are - like mine - elegant and fit in with the local surroundings. Others are very ugly, humungous great things that seem to have been built to withstand dynamite. As with everything else in life, some people just don't have any aesthetic sense.

So the new post box rules have come to a close. What's next on the rule agenda? The only certainty is that there will be something. Sådan er det bare, as they say in Denmark. 

Walter Blotscher