The response tri tion was frankly rather disappointing. It wasn't
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just the paucity of entries—barely enough to line a hamster cage— but also the quality. Our portrait of Cohn Barnett, resplendent in Bridgestone cap and jacket and brandishing a model truck, should have inspired better entries than "Air Mail" and "Wow I thought it was Darvader. You what? We'll spare the blushes of Russell Bevan and Mr FRM Garner by not printing their names. Oops. One of the few entries to make our lips curl in anything but disdain was Brian Watts' "The job advert said uniform and lorry supplied". This would have won the prize, hut for Chris Seton's extraordinary entry: three solid pages of captions, ranging from the mildly amusing "You want to see the size of the one that got away!" to the downright surreal "It's the latest in skateboard design". Clearly there's not enough to do when you're staying at Her Majesty's pleasure in HMP Wayland. So the cap, jacket and model go to Chris, along with a cake and a souvenir Bridgestone file, But Chris, please check out Commercial Motor's slogan: we're here to keep you profitable, professional and, above all, legal...