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Below is a table showing where the verbal seeds were sown in the first thousand days. For more recent activity, see the News pages.

Meanwhile, here are some links to locations containing our words:

Sky News. Channel 4, BBC World News

Day	Location	Verbal Seed	Viewing figures
4	Hull University	Round the corner	200
6	New Cross	Round the corner	100
6	New Cross	Honk	100
7	Digital Spy Movies Forum	Games	280
10	The Lower Sixth Form of a London School	Honk	7
11	Brunel University	Round the Corner	100
12	London Wetlands Centre	Honk	10
12	London Wetlands Centre	Bollo	20
13	Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music Forum	Mental Safari	129
13	The Enterprise, Camden	Honk	10
14	BBC Manchester website	Honk	1000
15	UCL	Round the Corner	80
19	Game of Monopoly, Belsize Park	Honk	3
21	Val D'Isere	Games	10
28	Radio Solent Breakfast Show	Honk	250,000
30	The Globe, London	Round the Corner	100
30	Haywards Heath	Round the Corner	150
32	myspace.com/verbalgardening	All seeds	188
32	myspace.com/hotchip	Honk and Bollo	5
37	Worcester Marrs Bar	Round the Corner	120
38	Tea at Three - BBC Southern Counties Radio	Round the Corner and Honk	200,000
41	U.E.A. Norwich	Round the Corner and Bollo	100
48	Hertfordshire	Mental Safari	1
49	BBC Radio Lincolnshire	Honk	10
51	Nottingham University	Round the Corner	150
57	BBC website - the 606 football forum	Honk	100
58	Channel 4 website - the Games forum	Games	10
59	BBC Radio Gloucester, with DJ John Rockley	Honk	100,000
60	Loose Ends, Radio 4	Mental Safari	500,000
74	LBC with Caroline Feraday	It's Impossible to Balance a Shoe on a Shoe	5000
75	Moscow	Is There Coconut in This	1
76	BBC Radio Kent, with DJ Julie Maddock	Honk	100,000
77	Wallingford, Connecticut	Bollo	17,827
85	Radio Bahrain	Honk	50,000
88	BBC Radio Leeds	Honk and Mental Safari	20,000
101	www.tencomments.com	Pratdigger and Honk	1000
103	Sue Perkins' Morning Show on LBC	Paddles	20,000
111	Lords Cricket Ground - disappointingly small crowd for the last day of the first test	Bollo	15
117	Itchy Manchester	Mental Safari	30,000
117	Itchy Liverpool	Mental Safari	30,000
117	Itchy London	Mental Safari and Honk	30,000
117	Itchy Birmingham	Mental Safari and Honk	30,000
117	Itchy Glasgow	Mental Safari and Honk	30,000
117	Itchy Edinburgh	Mental Safari and Honk	30,000
131	Radio Mersey with DJ Roger	Honk	50,000
132	The Times - Times2 Arts Section	Honk	700,000
134	Canal Cafe Theatre, Delamere Terrarce, London	It's Impossible To Balance A Shoe On A Shoe	15
135	BBC Radio 2 Offices	Demi	7
140-149	School children in Oxfordshire	Demi	25
140-149	More school children in Oxfordshire	Paddles	80
150-151	England Fans and German People	Honk, Paddles, Games	1000?
156	The Riverside Festival in Stanstead Abbotts	Pratdigger	100
159	Canal Cafe Theatre, Little Venice	Cutter and Demi	8
160-169	Channel 4 Music	Paddles	800,000?
160-169	MTV UK (Lovebox Festival)	Honk	50
170ish	Oxford (park and 'The Purple Turtle')	Paddles	12
175-185	Portugal	Bollo	30
186	Elspeth Road, Clapham	Pratdigger	6
199	That Which Is Not Said - A Collection of Poetry sold at the Edinburgh Festival	Bollo	1000
201	The 10 Richest People in Britain	All Seeds	10
206	The Times - Sounds (Times2)	Honk	700,000
207	www.edfringe.com (comments on the musical Honk!)	Honk	22
210	Narnia Guest House, Knysna, South Africa	Honk	10
211	Whalesway Guest House, Wilderness, South Africa	Honk	10
217	James Nesbitt's Murphy's Law - BBC1 - highlighted on youtube	Are You There	37
242	Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway - ITV - highlighted on youtube	Are You There	191
250	The Lower Sixth Form of a London School	Paddles	40
251	Channel 4's This Is A Knife (a tv programme on the internet)	Bollo, Paddles, Honk, Shoe On A Shoe Myth	3500
252	Channel 4 Radio's Glory Box (a radio programme on the internet)	Tkday	5500
342	Another group of Rare Men	Honk	5
349	Anita Anand's show on Radio Five Live	Paddles	200,000
362	Club De Fromage, near Angel Tube Station, London	Paddles	120
364 + 366	Sky News - Technofile	Honk, Paddles, Bollo, Pratdigger	800,000
369	Club De Fromage, near Angel Tube Station, London	Paddles	160
388	Omnibus - a Classics Magazine - 53rd Issue	Honk, Mental Safari and Ginger	1000
402	Radio 4 - Loose Ends	Honk	100,000
448	The List Magazine	Mental Safari	55,000
460	The London Paper	Pratdigger	200,000
462	Itchy City Guides	Paddles	400,500
498	BBC Radio London	Honk	120,000
512	The Londonist	Bollo	11,000
525	Sunday Times Travel Secton	Honk	50,000
527	BBC3 100 Most Annoying TV Programmes ever - or something	Pratdigger & Bollo	?
529	Radio Gloucester	Honk & Mental Safari	20,000
536	Daily Politics - Prime Minister's Questions Special - BBC2	Pratdigger & Mental Safari	550,000
540	Irish Radio's Talk News with Sean Moncrief	Bollo	10,000
541	BBC World, Lunchtime News with George Alagiah	Honk	250,000,000
552	Christian O'Connell's Virgin Radio Breakfast show	Honk and Pratdigger	1,200,000
556	The Fix Magazine	Honk and Bollo	500
557	Radio Kent	Honk	100,000
600	The Times	Bollo	600,000
625	Talksport with Hawksby and Jacobs	Pratdigger	500,000
636	Capital Radio News	Pratdigger and Honk	1,000,000
638	BBC Wales Breakfast Show with Rhun Ap Iorworth	Pratdigger	750,000
670	Five Live 606 forums: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A29526357	TKDay	50
728	A school next door to Wormwood Scrubs	All seeds	32
735	Timeout	Honk	150,000
744	Hawskby and Jacobs, Talksport	Ginger, TKDay	200,000
755	Itchy City Guides	Bollo, Honk	50,000
750	Channel 4 building - to Eric Bana and Lisa Snowdon	Honk	2
760	Loose Ends	TKDay, Kaplinsky	350,000
763	Eton	All seeds	58
766	Club De Fromage, Angel, London	Paddles	500
780	Eurofruit Magazine Editorial	Mental Safari	10,000
821	The Classical Magazine, Iris	Pratdigger, Honk	250
901	A work email	Honk	1
910	Time Out magazine	Honk	100,000
920	Pleasance - Dan Atkinson's show	Honk	50
921	Phil Williams show - Radio 5 live	Honk	400,000
921	Pleasance - Lloyd Woolf's show	Honk	50
922	BBC Radio Scotland	Honk, Mental safari, Paddle	300,000
924	The Royal Mile, Stuart Goldsmith's street preformance	Honk	150
925	Chortle	Honk	10,000
925	What's On Stage	Mental Safari	1,000
925	Three Weeks Daily	Honk	500
927	Radio Five Live	Honk	100,000
930	BBC Radio Scotland with Fred Macauley	Honk, Paddles, Mental Safari, Pratdigger	500,000
931	The 5 O'Clock show on STV	Mental Safari	2,000,000
932	Art Rocker website review of The Weight	Honk	300
933	Charlotte Chapel Church bulletin, Edinburgh	Honk	1,000
935	Radio 2 - Mo Dutta show	Honk	800,000
935	Financial Times	Honest	400,000
935	The Scotsman	Honk, Paddles, Pratdigger, Honest, Bollo	1,000,000
936	Radio One	Honk, Mental Safari	1,000,000
936	Pleasance - Umbrella Birds show	Honk	50
937	George Square, Edinburgh - Jet Set Go	Honest	80
941	Just giving website	Honk	200
942	Pleasance - Comedy Zone show	Honk	100
943	Jon Richardson's show, BBC 6 Music	Honk	200,000
944	Countdown	Honk	1,200,000
945	Countdown	Honk	1,200,000
945	An email from a Mr J. Davies	Honk	50
946	Room Thirteen website, Kate Nash review	Honk	600
949	Walsall vs Southend official programme	Honk	3,000
951	Guardian sport website	Honk	20,000
952	Radio One website	Pratdigger	30,000
952	myspace	Pratdigger	1
954	Leeds Lifestyle Guide	Pratdigger and Honk	1000
955	Pub Quiz, London	Kaplinsky rumour	30
957	Lower League Football Blog	Honk	200
957	Corporate emails	Mental Safari	3
959	The Ecton View Parish Magazine	Honk, mental safari, honest, bollo	250
960	www.telegraph.co.uk	pratdigger	5000
961	wikipedia	Kaplinsky rumour	100
965	Anfield - home dressing room	Honk	1 (Stevie G)
966	www.wordia.com	Honk	250
967	Pub Quiz - chesham	Kaplinsky rumour	30
968	Loose women, ITV	Honk	1,000,000
970	Walsall footy programmes (vs Southend and Leyton Orient)	Honk and mental safari	6,000
986	bebo	Mental Safari	50
993	The Verb, Radio 3	Honk	100,000

Total	-	-	270,536,590

This is a table created solely for the tracking of Service Station Temporary Graffiti. There are 83 Motorway Service Stations in this country. In the first 500 days of this project I intend to emplant a Verbal Seed in every toilet (in the actual petrol station bit) that already has graffiti on it, using a non-permanent white board marker. In the next 500 days I will then return to each toilet and clean off the Seed with White Spirit.

Day	Location	Verbal Seed	Other Notes
9	Newport Pagnell (n)	Bollo	Lots of graffiti by 'Northern Dads' and responses like 'Inbread Northern Monkeys'
9	Newport Pagnell (s)	Bollo
40	Newport Pagnell (n)	Pratdigger	Bollo still there
40	Newport Pagnell (s)	Pratdigger	Absolutely no change
42	Norton Canes (n)	n/a	Clean
45	Watford Gap (s)	n/a	Clean
51	Leicester Forest East (n)	Bollo	'Brano Harichovce SVK' was here
52	London Gateway (n)	Bollo	'CCFC' inscribed. Which team is this?
53	Heston (w)	n/a	Clean and there were flowers
53	Heston (e)	Bollo	There were flowers but someone had also drawn round there own hand with a pen and people had disagreed as to whether it was a boy's hand or a man's hand
54	Reading (w)	Bollo	An angry man had written 'no wife, more money'
54	Exeter (e)	n/a	Clean
55	Membury (w)	Bollo	A NUFC fan had been here
60	Membury (e)	Bollo	Nipper waz ere also
61	Reading (e)	n/a	Clean
65	Chieveley	n/a	NO TOILET
66	London Gateway (n)	-	Bollo still there
66	Stafford (n)	Bollo
67	Hilton Park (s)	Bollo	An awful toilet. And a Liverpool fan had written his phone number followed by 'LFC Five Times!'
67	Fleet (w)	n/a	Clean
67	Winchester (w)	n/a	Clean - an amazing toilet: Three cubicles, piped music - 80% (that's the benchmark now)
72	Northampton (n)	Bollo x2	Someone had drawn a big gace and written "stop looking at yourself in the mirror". Also another note from an LFC fan. Is he doing what we're doing?
72	Donnington Park (n)	n/a	Clean - colourful flowers and tiles also featured - 75%
73	Northampton (s)	n/a	Clean - no real effort made though - 60%
73	Clacket Lane (cw)	Bollo	Two other notes: Pants on Tour '06, and, Fick dich '06. A good exchange.
81	Maidestone (e)	n/a	Awful and out of order - must return
89	Warwick (n)	n/a	Clean
91	Oxford (n)	Bollo	Lots of pro-Liverpool propaganda
92	Watford Gap (n)	Bollo	A poem: "Here I sat broken and battered to shit but only fatal" - not bad.
92	Trowell (n)	n/a	Recently Clean - 70%
92	Woodall (s)	n/a	Clean but no urinals - 70%
93	Donnington Park (s)	n/a	It's the same as the Northbound site!
95	Oxford (s)	n/a	Again, same as Northbound. But this time the bollo is wearing off! A flaw?
98	Fleet (w)	n/a	Still clean but now there's a BNP message on the OUTSIDE of the door. They don't muck about.
100	Medway (e)	n/a	Outdoor and Disabled toilet but clean and with flowers - 82%
105	Stafford (n)	n/a	BOLLO HAS GONE - replaced by rubbish graffiti... Interesting.
106	Knutsford (s)	n/a	Clean but some graffiti had been added with the aid of a knife. Not for me, thanks.
106	Sandbach (s)	n/a	Clean and basic - 70%
107	Membury (e)	n/a	Again, BOLLO HAS GONE. Replaced by some abuse for Wigan, a picture of a skull and a swastika. One poem too: "If we life in an open cage what's the point in being trapped". Well.
108	Rownhams (w)	Bollo	Popular with Everton, West Ham and Man City fans.
110	Birchanger Green (n)	n/a	Clean but flooded - 50%

*THE SERVICE STATION TEMPORARY GRAFFITI EXPERIMENT HAS NOW COME TO AN END.

UNFORTUNATELY, ON RETURNING TO THE SERVICE STATIONS THE TEMPORARY INK HAD ON EACH OCCASION BEEN RUBBED OFF, EITHER BY A CLEANER OR BY GENERAL FRICTION. WE ARE NOW LOOKING INTO FORMS OF TEMPORARY GRAFFITI THAT LAST JUST SLIGHTLY LONGER.

IF YOU KNOW OF ANY CHEAP BIODEGRADABLE MATERIALS PLEASE CONTACT THE FARMER ON vgfarmer@hotmail.co.uk. THANK YOU.