thirsty work
here is john outside my office drinking from a giant water bottle. he’s been constantly thirsty ever since he got bitten by that foaming-mouthed dog a few weeks ago.
March 2004
black beauty
this street cabinet has been resently repainted with anti graffiti blobby paint. it’s as black as can be yet seems to be really bright because it was reflecting the sunlight.
it was really quite attractive to look at. i might get our car done in a similar style.
pigeon love
spring is in the air and the pigeons are getting amorous. these two were snogging so passionately i couldn’t get a decent photo.
quality meats
everything about this shop screams quality. click for a bigger view. the door on the right is presumably unconnected with the main shop.
plinth
a great word and a sign ignored.
it says “please do not place any items on this plinth”.
items means more than one, and there is only one bin, so it’s probably ok.
reflections
this building is more reflection than real thing
too far
my old tube season ticket used to let me go anywhere. nowadays i walk most places so i just buy tickets as i need them. the cheapest way for me is to buy a Carnet of tickets which works out as 10 tickets for £15.
However, i forgot that these tickets only cover zone 1. so my cunning plan to stay on an extra stop and get off a whitechapel instead of aldgate east backfired when my ticket wouldn’t work to get me out of the station.
i could have paid to be released, but resented that so went back one stop and got off at the proper station. so sorry, but i haven’t got lovely pictures of lovely things this morning.
but i did take this picture of a clock at Whitechapel tube station. i’ve been thinking a lot about analogue and digital clocks this morning. they are very different beasts. perhaps i’ll tell you about it sometime.
oh, and to the person who phoned our house at 2am this morning from a mobile phone. please don’t do that again. it’s made us very tired today.
the mezzanine
here’s a book i’ve just read. it’s a book of the small. and most excellent. it’s by nicholson baker. probably the world has already heard of him, but i hadn’t.
thanks to the person who recommended it (via a comment on this blog somewhere i think!).
stirrers on the ground at paddington station
jack straws. pick up sticks. station stirrers.
tesselations
my colleague has just pointed me in the direction of this excellent website.
it’s one of a small number of websites which live on the same little server as funkypancake so that makes us web-neighbours.
confectionary tales
i just popped out to the sandwich shop to get my lunch and i popped in to the newsagents to get the chocolate element of my lunch. the conversation went like this:
me:[after looking at the chocolate for a while] there sure is a dazzling array of confectionary available for the modern man
newsagent: yes, too much if you ask me. people still want more and aren’t happy with what we’ve got
me: yes, that’s because chocolate can’t satisfy the soul
the newsagent then stared at me like i was completely mad. i took my queue and left.
bubble chamber
set your own art in motion with a bubble chamber picture
robot wars
from my window i could see the robot wars merchandising shop. but it’s shut or moved or something. it’s funny how you miss things when they are gone. i never went in it, but it was quite exciting. now it’s just a load of flourescent yellow and black lines.
toys on lorries
it’s quite common to see kids’ soft toys stuck to the front of dustbin lorries. i suspect this must traumatise some kids – especially if it was their old favourite toy which was stuck on there.
teddy bears were never designed for the outside life and rapidly become brown soggy blobs of fluff through all the heavy street wear. they so provide a nice contrast to the bin men who put them there though. it proves these most menly of men (you rarely see bin ladies) still keep in touch with their femine side.
i may mention this next time i see such a bin lorry. but i may not.
this collection of teddys, dolls and union jacks was on a delivery van. i hope this craze will spread to all modes of transport, and not only restrict itself to commercial vehicles.
blue
my local train station foot bridge has been painted blue. it looked and smelt lovely this morning. please enjoy it with me.
this door is alarmed
this door is alarmed apparently. i’m not surprised. it’s been thrown out in to the street and left next to a bollard. it has no idea what will happen to it next. poor thing
