Save our Umbrellas

The recent stormy weather has led to a disturbing amount of abandoned, broken umbrellas on the streets of Brooklyn. Just in the space of an hour last saturday evening we saw 15, yes 15 wrecked and discarded umbrellas which had been…

Carelessly run over….
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Dumped in bins….

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(there are 3 umbrellas in the above picture, there is one in the bin top left corner, just out of shot)

Abandoned near, on and over fences…

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Randomly discarded on the street…

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This baby umbrella was left at the bottom of our steps so we rescused him and will be hand rearing into a fully-grown adult

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  However, after all of our umbrella rescuing we realised something – we’d left our own brand-new umbrella lying on the floor in the pub…ooops

4 Comments »

  1. bigappleadventures Said:

    I really do need to get a job and start meeting people…

  2. Loz Said:

    That was well funny. Good work Michelle!

  3. Kate Said:

    Alec told me about your umbrella post and I just had to check it out! I love the action shots :) So when are you getting to work in the cattery missis?

  4. Emma Said:

    Michelle, keep up the good work, the umbrellas of New York need you!!! I love your little face in the pics, you look really upset!
    Perhaps you should contact Rihanna, she could be the face of your campaign ella ella xx


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