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• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
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  10 October 2025     23:22387558
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  'Sacrilegious' graffiti exhibition makes Canterbury cathedral 'look like an underground car park in Peckham' say appalled worshippers
  
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15181045/graffiti-exhibition-Canterbury-cathedral-underground-car-park-Peckham.html
  "The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
  
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Button

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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  11 October 2025     08:00387560
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  'The piece is the work of... collaboration with marginalised communities and a team of skilled artists.' I wonder which was the harder to find: a set of marginalised communities or a team of skilled artists.
  (Not my real name.)
• Arthur

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  11 October 2025     09:46387561
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  Perhaps they’re due to hold another silent disco!
  Frankly the I find the whole thing very sad and upsetting - but then again I’m one of the few not celebrating the appointment of the new Archbishop of Canterbury
• Captain Haddock

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  11 October 2025     10:52387563
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  This project focuses on partnering with marginalised communities—such as Punjabi, black and brown diaspora, neurodivergent, and LGBTQIA+ groups—to collaboratively create handwritten literature responding to the question, "What would you ask God?"
  
  

  

  
  
  This is Alex Vellis.
  The Canterbury Cathedral 'Artist'.
  
  https://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/whats-on/events/hear-us/
  "The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
  
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Arthur

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  11 October 2025     11:07387564
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  Frankly I just don’t have the words………..!!
• Button

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  11 October 2025     13:38387565
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  When I was growing up, non-conformists looked a lot more, well, sober.
  (Not my real name.)
• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
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  12 October 2025     11:59387570
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  I was told yesterday that Wetherspoons have a better record of looking after old buildings!
  
  Here's an interesting column on the subject :-
  
  https://europeanconservative.com/articles/essay/my-attempt-to-stop-the-desecration-of-canterbury-cathedral/
  
  (I was actually visiting the Cathedral earlier this week and wondered why the crypt was temporarily closed !)
  "The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
  
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson