One April evening in 1986, Bill Heine was sitting on the steps opposite his newly purchased terraced house in Oxford, drinking a glass of wine, when he turned to his friend and asked a simple question: “Can you do something to liven it up?”God love the Brits!
His friend, the sculptor John Buckley, provided an answer in the shape of an eight-metre (25ft) shark which would sit on his roof, perpetually appearing as though it had just crashed into the house from the sky. The fibreglass fish, which became known as the Headington Shark after the Oxford suburb, led Heine, a local journalist and businessman who died last week, into a six-year legal battle with the local council.
Rejoice, Monty Python!
Nice to read about a whimsical rich person instead of about the Degenerate Golfer-in-Chief and his facilitating minions who lie about his scores,
ReplyDeleteI wonder when Shark Week will be in 2019.
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