In the midst of one of Southampton’s longest ever Council worker disputes, and let’s be honest, at times it’s been easy to think that our fair city has twinned with Mumbai, Rio, Beirut, Tripoli and Dhaka, it’s interesting to do a passing analysis of life’s flotsam and jetsam as you wander along the city’s troubled and rubbish filled streets.
And what does that analysis tell you? Well, to begin with, there is a definite ‘scavenging bird’ hierarchy and that pigeons are coming off second best to herring gulls (that’s if the numbers of pigeon carcasses are anything to go by!).