Workmen from Bristol have painted over the earliest know Banksy mural because they thought it was vandalism that needed clearing up. Although the Banksy tag would have originally been considered vandalism, Bristol Council ordered all Banksy “street art” to be preserved when the artist gained mainstream exposure. The piece of art painted over had been done on the side of a garage and is thought to have been worth around £100,000.

Pictured above is the mural before and after with a picture of a balaclava sporting Bansky in the corner. You can notice that some sharp witted satirist has written “Wot No Banksy?” on the black paint afterwards.

This “fat lane” picture is one of my personal favourite Banksy photo’s. Apparently there is a new form of vandalism on the rise that you can’t be prosecuted for, this involves cleaning dirty walls to leave pictures or messages on them. Surely this has been being done for years with hilarious slogans being written on White Vans. My favourite White Van slogan is “I wish my wife was as dirty as this van”.

My last wally of the week was Drink Drive Wally.

Pete Graham xXx

Bank Holiday enthusiast and my mother Kit Graham forwarded a email earlier this week. The email urges people to go this site and vote for St Georges Day to be made into a bank holiday. The site claims that only 500,000 votes are needed for the government to take it seriously, I have no idea if this is true or not but think it’s worth a go.

St Georges day falls on April 23rd and is on a Monday this year. A few weeks ago I wrote about some traditional British activities you could do on St George’s day, here are some more:

• eat a kebab
• burn some food on a bbq
• wearing a football shirt and getting in a fight
• get sunburnt

The above suggestions do not have to be done in this order, why not try mix and matching activities for variation.

FACT: St Georges Day is named after George Foreman, it was created after he knocked out a Dragon and then proceeded to grill it on one of his lean, mean, grilling machines

Pete Graham xXx