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February 2004

brother edd

here is brother edd in my office. he popped in for an early morning cuppa.
but the machine didn’t vend tea and he didn’t want to dunk a tea bag (he has standards) so the tea remained unmade and he sat there quietly.
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psychedelic slick 2

here is another psychedelic slick in the same place as i saw the other one. This one looks particularly tie-dye.
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found stuff

fridge freezer and a sofa.
the fridge freezer is looking rather depressed and may be considering throwing itself off over the railings. i tried talking to it but it wouldn’t answer.
the cushion had been moved on the chair so i suspect someone had been looking for lost money and other items down the back of the sofa. i certainly couldn’t find anything when i had a look
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buckets of fun

this morning i saw a bucket. it belonged to a man who was cleaning a street light with a mop on a long stick (like this one and this one).
His bucket contained a liquid which was so black it was almost a mirror. it was very peculiar and was definately haunted.
and just now i went past a bucket next to a drain cleaner van and it contained this mysterious orange substance. again, the colour was unlike any other i’d seen before (in an orangey/goldy glowey kind of way). it reminded me of the wall on the back of the spaceship on blake’s 7 (if my remembory serves me well)
what IS going on ?
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remembory

remembory is a word i forgot i knew. it’s a thing you once knew and know you knew, but can’t quite extract it from its storage.
it’s on the tip of your mind’s tongue (which is located near your mind’s eye).
when the thought is locked in the place between your memory and it being remembered, for a short while (sometimes longer) it’s a remembory (the thing) which is trapped in your remembory (the place).
a picture showing clearly the location of my remembory:
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the wrong van

there’s a recording studio for one of the major record labels near my office. often large lorries full of orchestral instruments get loaded and unloaded outside their doors.
just now there was a tesco’s lorry parked up and it got me thinking, what if no-one noticed it was the wrong lorry. the musicians would be playing empty joghurt pots and shaking bags of pasta shapes along to the beat.
there’s plenty of room for a whole concept album. i’m also sure there is a host a supermarket/music puns you could insert here.
more generally, wouldn’t it be excellent if all the lorries that travelled the country all got mixed up and people had to work through the consequences.
if only i were a lorry driver. i’d have some real fun.
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office equipment

the modern office is a delicate equilibrium. things are created and destroyed following a careful and seemingly endless pattern.
letters are written on word processors, printed out, put in envelopes, posted, opened, read and destroyed, and/or filed, but whatever, mostly eventually land filled.
each piece of equipment in the office has its nemesis. for the printer, it’s legion: the dustbin, the shredder, the recycling bag etc.
for the stapler it’s the staple remover (seen here). it could be argued the remover is only needed when mistakes are made.
but i say removing staples is just part of the process.
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i love my stapler. it’s grip is great. and you can store it vertically on its nose.

big fish

jane and i went to the flicks last night to see big fish. i broke my chocolate drought and ate massives of chocolate and a bucket of pepsi.
the film was good. dodgy ewan mcgregor accent at some points (must have been bad for an englishman to spot a scottish american accent). otherwise most excellent and worth a trip.
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it contained some shoe throwing which i like to see:
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my mother finds a glove

three generations of glove finders out on a walk were bound to find some gloves.
my mum spotted this one first:
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close up view:
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and then i found this in a little stream:
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dog sign

this is a local dog sign. to my surprise i haven’t blogged it before and it is slightly different from other dog signs i’ve got. specifically the little red cross by its back leg. not to be confused with this one
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vague shopping list

spotted this outside our local do it yourself shop.
i assume it’s a shopping list and it says ‘6 large, 2 very small’
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cat update

jane poured the water out of the cat glass as she was worried the cat might dissolve. i pointed out that that was the point. (lots of words duplication in that last sentence). so i filled it up again. but i took a photo first

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