Every day on my way to the Cambridge University Library I walk through Kings College - that's Kings in the background with the spires - and it took me a while to recognise what was so odd about this lawn. It is the absence of litter.
You see, having worked at universities for the past decade I had learned to associate a sea of litter with student spaces.
Not only is there no litter, but there is no graffiti, no abandoned mattresses, no beer glasses, no bottles, not even a Macca's wrapper in sight. The other surprise was that no one walks on the grass....although I did see a little woman deliberately cut diagonally across in full sight of everyone. I then heard a porter explaining to some tourists that she had the right. I suppose that if you have to earn the right, it should be a lawn worth walking on.
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