here’s a photo i found in hyde park this evening. but is it a boy or a girl. i have to decide before i post it on davescollections as this is how i categorise them. sister binky says it’s a boy. what do you think ?
i’ll await some kind of consensus before i post to davescollections.
here is a photo from brother kev (jane’s sister’s husband as seen on the blog at christmas with a low hat – we’ve very informal around here and ignore the traditional ‘in-law’ thing).
it’s a very good picture and would make a terrific background for any desktop.
kev says:
I’ve started carrying my camera around and hey presto, in only three days my first glove.
Totally genuine, found on a tree stump beside a path just behind Elm Park in Thame, Oxfordshire, at about 12.30pm on Thursday 12 Feb 04
And here it is all for you
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there’s been a few stories in the paper about prince harry going out drinking and smoking and generally gavorting.
i suspect it might have been him and his chums who threw this bench in the lake just next to buck-house.
thanks to the new turf (i nearly mispelt that) the environs around buckingham palace looks very green.
here is some turf near buckingham palace. it looked good so i photo’d it for you. my photo inspired others to take a photo and before i knew it i was the official turf photographer.
a french lady with two teenage girls decided i should take photos of them all next to the turf. she handed me a camera and said “i have two machines” and passed me another.
i was going to get a photo of me taking the photo of them but i didn’t.
here are some end bits:
i’ve never understood why nature has to cover itself with camouflage. what’s it hiding from ? this tree had classic army camo colours (greens/yellow/brown). but i still spotted it.
i took this photo near buckingham palace. an [bunch] ? of police motorcycles bloked the road to allow this car to pass by. i got my camera out just in time.
it’s probably royalty. you can compare to it my previous shot of royalty to be sure.
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i really don’t know why, but i’d forgotten all about slicing loaves of bread. i guess it shows how much i get involved in the domesticity at home. we often get sliced bread and french sticks and other stuff which doesn’t require chopping in the same way.
however, working from home this morning i decided i needed some toast. and there was the loaf ready to cut. however, i’d forgotten about jane (my wife) and my incompatibility in this area.
She cuts at an angle whilst i go for the straight up and down cut. i think it’s to do with how she squashes the loaf with her non chopping hand. to ‘right each other’s wrongs’ we have to chop a wedge shape off, to reset the loaf, and then start our own style
so, once again i am reminded that there are generally two solutions to potential disharmony:
solution by ommission (i go nowhere near the bread (or have my own bread) and therefore don’t cause any trouble)
solution by technology (we buy sliced bread)
but what did you expect for £10.95 ?
telephone boxes at Embankment. these phone boxes have probably got a BT code name and i’m sure Pete will tell us what it is …
in the last few months these funny boards have appeared in most tube stations. they tell you how all the other train lines are doing so you don’t feel so bad that the line you are about to travel on is a bit broken too.
occasionally you can even feel smug that your line is ok whilst all the others are broken.
i like how they are written by hand in felt pen. makes them somehow more human.
this one today caught my eye. it uses the words ‘normal’ and ‘good’. standards have fallen so far that normal is bad and good is noteworthy.
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how often do you see something in a shop window and go inside to buy it only to end up leaving the shop with a watch nearly twice the price of the one in the window (but with more features).
this happened to me today. the watch in the window was £5.99. Admitedly it wasn’t all i wanted. once in the shop an extremely nice chap showed me a variety of watches and in the end i bought one for £10.95.
no compass – but i can always use an upturned plate if i want to draw a circle.
this shop is just off petticoat lane and is excellent. go there and buy a cheap modern digital watch.
we all love a website that has been designed to look bad. here is a christian version. it’s the The First Baptist Church of {unidentified}. Turn your sound up and dance along with Jesus.
my mum used to tell my brother and i that mushy over ripe bananas were what you got given in hospital to make you well. they became known as hospital bananas.
it never occured to me that maybe the reason we called them hospital bananas is that they could make you ill and you’d end up in hospital.
whatever, nobody likes the brown gloopy bit of a banana do they ?
i’m usually pretty useless when i arrive home in an evening. my 1hr 45 minutes commute can often be quite miserable (though it’s at least more bearable since i dumped the tube for walking).
the best bit about the commute home is the reaction from esther and kezia when i walk through the door. they are (usually) so excited to see me. it’s a real ego boost.
today they were even waiting at the window, waving down the street as i approached the house.
hoorah for jolly kids !
update: ooops, just in case anyone thought otherwise, hoorah for jolly wives too. especially jane who it goes without saying i’m also very glad to see each evening. it went without saying, so i didn’t say it. but now i have.
here are two people painted white snogging on paddington station waiting area. i think they were doing something official
update: having read the comments, i suppose they are trying to recreate ‘the snog’ as seen in the tate modern
here are some double yellow lines on the road and the curb stone. i thought you’d like it. think of it as an early valentine’s present.
