Before I forget (or after, depending on your timezone), it must be time for #BollardOfTheWeek

This week, my nomination is a bollard that stands, with four or five siblings, on the margins of Newington Causeway, as it must have done for at least thirty-nine years.

The "GLC" on the top stands for the Greater London Council, which was abolished in 1986, since when London's bollards have never been quite the same, though they weren't that beforehand either.

And now, unfortunately, it's time for #BollardOfTheWeek

This time it's a Broxap 1538, brochured as a cast-iron "Oxford", that lurks in the depths of South Dulwich amidst a host of imposters (from a supplier I shall not name) whose thinner hearts are now slipping their surly polyurethane bonds, likely on account of the damp.