I found this in a phone box today in Denmark Street (Tin Pan Alley):

the welly (reported earlier) has moved. it was on a wall. but now it is on a parking meter across the pathway. if the welly is on a journey then i suggest it would make better progress at floor level.

i would love to have seen the jump it made from the wall (which is behind where the photos were taken).

try to act "superfluously" every other hour.

everything is total nonsense. discuss

In my half sleep I remembered this up for the first time:

There are none so blind as those that can't see. Makes you think yes ?

Blind Photography should make you think even more ...

t h e f r a m l e y e x a m i n e r

funky music down the funky doctors ...

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photo taken by tony newell near Keswick, July 2002.

me with long hair and a nice rain coat.

found in Lincoln and photographed by John.
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here is a good word. try to use it as often as possible this week:

pernicious

let me know how you get on.

there's always something strange going on in the local charity shop. particularly the people that work there. last week it was a man dressed as a woman (proper like, not your fancy dress type thing). conversation which i overheard implied he was one of your actual transvestites. i digress. today when i went in there was a lady wearing a face mask in the anti-sars style. though she may be the one laughing in 10 days times. or maybe it's her that is infectious and she wants to protect the rest of us ...

just saw a bloke sitting on the floor wearing walking boots on his hands (as well as his feet). Maybe it's a new fashion thing. Personally I have no opinion on the whole 'boots as gloves' concept. I would have taken a photo. But it seemed a bit rude. Whitfield Street isn't a cat-walk you know.

• black hat left at station on a bench
• pink bonnet left on the slow train to london
• three elastic bands in the street (can't be more specific)
• welly on a wall on the way to work (see picture)

fantastic blue pool in the UK.
Toilets were voted best loos 1999.
Won't win this year though (imho)

photo by dave

photo by dave

photo by dave

just back from a weekend in weymouth. was very excellent. stayed in a caravan, but even that was good.

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fantastic geography

photo by dave

photo by dave

always good value - old people eating ice-cream

photo by dave

photo by dave

photo by dave

photo by dave

How to produce a list showing all the different values that appear in a column in Excel

here's a cunning plan. in order to be able to finish work at 1.30pm on a Friday (4 hours early) I have decided to start work 4 hours early (5am).

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This whole site looks fantastic. Apologies if there is anything unpleasant on it. It's not my siteThemanwhofellasleep - welcome to nowhere you like

Funky-rama music. Cheese at its best !
LuxuriaMusic Listen all day and float away

Bonkers shouty man this morning:

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esther had a really cool idea for a kids story today. so cool that i can't even put it in to the blog for fear of poachers ! I'll keep you posted ...

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Chalk graffiti found drawn on floor at Polesden Lacey

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Taken with her own low-res digicam:

photo by esther

Taken with dad's Sony Cybershot:

photo by esther

photo by esther

kezia walked three steps today. she was very excited about it.

she sort of walked one step yesterday. but one step is a fall. three steps is real walking. in my opinion. in brother edd's opinion, three steps is a 'jaunty strole'

and we saw the gooddys at spring harvest on the electrical television set. songs of praise was from spring harvest.

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easter sunday today. double feature church music-wise. arborfield this morning and barkham this evening. lots of funky bass lines. all good fun.

went to the vyne with andy, gill, adam and luke during the day. was most excellent.

photo by dave

photo by dave

today we went for a studio session at Venture Studios

Unfortunately Kezia wasn't in a great mood so misery abounded. We get to see the results on Friday.

Was very interesting from a photography point of view and I now want to paint the inside of our garage bright white. Suspect it's highly unlikely I will though.

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photo by dave

photo of post-it note by dave

after a game of Midtown Madness 2, esther decided she wanted to do some typing. she chose the colour and the words. i said the letters. she typed them all in herself:

Esther
Mousey
Potato
Body
Poo
Bottom
Hair
Head
Nose
Ear
Eyes
Top

you have to worry how their minds work

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Just uploaded two new photos to the davescollection website.

They are Girl 22 and the contents of a Sony Memory Stick which I found near work. Both found on the same day. Click on the photos to go to their page

freezer spotted and photo taken by dave

Often I walk down Praed Street. When my tube arrives at Edgware Road tube station I look to see what chances I have of catching my train. If it's more than 10 minutes until the next one then I usually get off at Edgware Road and walk down to Paddington Station. This avoids the crush exiting the tube at Paddington. Both the Circle and the Hammersmith & City Lines are horrible in the rush hour.

One day I noticed that the eery Wig Shop on Praed Street was having a sale. This concerned me as I thought the shop might be shutting down.

The wig shop is run by the famous Mr Gilbert. He's a real local character and I was concerned he might be moving on. So I decided I would enter his shop and see if I could get a photo of the great man in action.

I went in and he was there. He explained it was a genuine sale of ladies wigs (which didn't interest me - I buy mine at great discount from charity shops). I mentioned that he was a local celebrity and asked if he would mind if I took a photo of him in his shop.

Unfortunately he declined to be photoed as he said that he does adverts for certain products and the people who employ him may not like his image being taken.

i respected this, bade my fairwells and excited forethwith. A real shame I though.

However, here is a link to a site which does have a photo of the man and a quick interview: Mr Gilbert

Just in case the link goes away, here is the photo from the Newspad site:

A story from a while back when I had very long hair.

Sometimes I get a feeling I'm going to find a passport photo. One morning I was convinced I would find one if I walked from Paddington Station to Edgware road to cath my tube (instead of just catching it from Paddington). It's good to walk.

On the way, by the bus stop on Praed Street a random man approached me and said:

"I like your hair long mate but it's a shame because it's a disgrace"

Interestingly - further up the road is a wig shop, run by the famous Mr Gilbert (of Paddington Green fame). He himself has long hair. (more on this later). What would the poor man have made of that shop I wonder ...

photo by dave

photo of post-it note next to bike by dave

photo of post-it note next to bike by dave

sofa spotted and photo by dave

one man in a wig:

photo by herve

two men in wigs:

photo by herve

one man's real hair:

photo by dave