“It’s like a full-body Movember. And I’m a woman,” said one shocked dog-walker in Victoria Park this morning.
One London borough has decided to remind people that they are now utterly hideous lockdown has made them, in the hope that they’ll be too ashamed to enter public the public space.
“We’re concerned that weeks spent indoors have given people an appetite for sitting amongst needles, broken glass, dog shit and cigarette butts in windy public parks,” an official said. “Obviously, this must stop.”
The mirrors are hoped to remind visitors that, despite their enthusiastic new exercise regimes, they still look dreadful, with contorted expressions of pain and salt-tracks of dried tears on even the most sporty of faces.