Twelve months is a short time in a lifetime, I have no wish to engage in verbal fisticufs, just the right to express my views without your insults!

A coward does it with a kiss, a brave man with a sword.

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Hey you quoted me and took me to task.. wasnt you expecting a response?.. If you want to have a go at someone and them not reply then I suggest you pick on someone else. However feel free to take me to task anytime on my posts.. but have a little more than thoughts that pop into your head to backup what you post... :)

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yeh but would you buy the painting?;)

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Possibly not an original but I used to have pop art prints in my younger days. :)

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I like what's in them better willow, there is no accounting for taste, each to his/her own.

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Your lucky.. I cant remember younger days :)

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If I offended you or anyone else I humbly appologise, there is no place in my life for enemies or ill will.

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me too but thats a differant matter i may have done then,but their long gone an i now have proper pictures lol

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So do I Cashman, many of my own creating. ;)

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Awww thank you, one of my prints.:D

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I think the picture of the Blackburn Panoptican sums up the problem. Whether you like it or not it has to be kept in a decent state. The Blackburn one looks shabby and unloved and no doubt the council who`s job it is to provide maintenance for this sculpture will find better things to do with the towns money, which was always one of the reasons against anything on the Coppice, it would be just left to go to seed by the council.
Compare and contrast with the Angel Of The North, which has previously been used as a comparison. It needs minimum maintenance and was designed to weather as part of its attraction
Gayle does lots of fine work for the area and most of us don`t knock her just for the sake of it, only when we disagree with what is put forward, as is our democratic right. Remember Gayle is employed by Mid Pennine Arts and has to give a positive angle on these projects, because its her job!

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Thank you for the few of you who have come out in my defence. I do realise that when you're having a go at the Panopticons you're not having a go at me personally but there are times when I get a bit frustrated with it (I'm not complaining I know it's par for the course with a controversial project).

I get a bit frustrated because I'm not the project co-ordinator for the Panopticon project so it's not really up to me to take any credit (haha) or flak for it in some respects! However, I realise I'm the public face of the project in Hyndburn so it's only natural that you would talk to me about it.

Yes, Uncle Mick, I work for Mid Pennine Arts and yes, it's my job to be positive however, you've known me for a long time and when have I ever been the sort of person who would stand by things if I did not believe in them? You know me and you know that I have always been involved and interested in the arts so this is not some new thing that I have just latched on to. I am not just saying this because I have to but because it's my view.