The big giant head

So anyway a few days ago I was rather annoyed, there was no MAJOR reason for this except that outside Canary Wharf Station there was a sculpture that my friends and I nicknamed ‘The Big Giant Head’ – for obvious reasons (it was basically a bronze sculpture of a giant head). The nickname came from the television series ‘Third Rock from the Sun’. This was the meeting point for friends and family whenever we wanted to get together in Canary Wharf, conversations used to go like: “ Ok so we’ll meet round half-past seven at the big giant head!” Silly I know but it was fun.

So the other day I am leaving CW station and to my horror the head was gone and in its place was a… well it looked like constipated Polar Bear – it was all angles and steel. It ruined the whole in-joke as “Hey I’ll meet you near the constipated bear!” really lacks a certain je ne sais quoi (I have almost no French so that may be spelled incorrectly). I finally did locate the head – it had been moved to the side of the Lehmann Brothers building and put on a smaller plinth. When the head was where it was people could lean up against the big wooden box-like thing it was placed on, the Bear just sits on a slab of granite. I saw a child climbing all over it the other evening it was really depressing. Sooner or later someone is going to run into one of the pointy bits. That night I mourned for about ten minutes then fell asleep.