scribble of the day
what’s this ? andy thinks it could be a wombat. but who’s andy ?
April 2004
bin update
a slight movement closer to the road since yesterday. i hope this isn’t a suicide attempt.
nice weather for ducks in a row
here are some ducks in a row at paddington station:
and here is an escapee a few miles away near Harley Street. it’s nice weather for ducks today so it should be ok:
nigel havers
remember nigel havers ? well i saw him again today. in paddington station this time. he’s my most photographed spotted celebrity. (i’ve seen Simon Pegg three times and Dennis Norden three times, but only snapped them once each). Nigel’s IMDB entry is here
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page 123
just when i thought i wasn’t going to see any more numbered signs in paddington station i saw this. it’s page 123.
FACTS
i thought the purpose of a census was to extract information on members of society so we all know where and who we are. when it happens everyone has to take part else it’s not a proper census.
it’s certainly not the case that we are all doing our own census and can pop in if we want to ask our own questions as is implied by this sign.
i didn’t require a census so i walked a different way (i hobbled)
reclaiming the streets
here is a sign in a tunnel. i assume it was put up by the street people who live in it. they were probably annoyed by all the tourists chatting whilst they were asleep in their cardboard boxes.
“shush. tramps sleeping” would have worked better
celebrities were here
these wires on are the south bank near the ITV studios. when i worked at a previous place i walked past this space every morning and enjoyed the occasional glimpse of GMTV being presented al fresco.
i once saw dale winton and loraine kelly you know.
it’s well known that celebrities don’t operate correctly unless they are literally wired in to a television studio. these wires indicated to me that there had been some celebrity interest at a point earlier in the day and i had missed it.
oh well.
overhead tunnels to beat gravitational disimularities
london is a higgledepiggldy place. it’s not uncommon to find two building next to each other with a random overhead tunnel connecting them. often these walkways are angled up or down to reflect the different levels of floor heights in the adjacent building.
but what if one building is built at 90 degrees to another ? what if one building has gravity working downwards, but the one next to it has gravity working sideways ?
well, the answer is to have an overhead tunnel with a rotation slightly built in.
if you come to london you really should track this amazing gravitational altering device out. It’s in Covernt Garden next to some theatre.
Pure Reason Revolution
Our friends’ bands Pure Reason Revolution have their debut single out this week. it’s most excellent.
They are on Poptones which is Alan Magee of Creation records label.
here are some CDs and vinyl in Virgin Records on Oxford Street:
who’s bin moving it ?
this bin moves around a fair bit. yesterday it was by a bollard further down the street. today it’s in the middle of the street.
i find this very interesting and will try and keep an eye on it for you.
found things
a double finder this evening. firstly i saw an abandoned jacket on my tube train so i reported it to a guard as i thought it could be considered a ‘suspect package’.
the guard wasn’t that bothered and just picked it up and swung it over his shoulder, which isn’t the best way of diffusing a potentially terrorist situation. but at least then we knew it was’t a bomb.
then, when i got to Paddington station i found these glasses on the platform. i picked them up and took them to a guard, who, guess what, wasn’t that bothered. he tried to give them back to me. i said “they’re not mine, i just found them” but he wasn’t convinces, so I ran off to get my train.
thunder storm
there was a great thunder storm this afternoon when i was in a meeting. i took this photo a couple of minutes before whilst the clouds were gathering.
great at faces
they are doing up the whole area round St Pauls and it looks great (it’ll look even better when they’ve finished sandblasting the cathedral itself).
i noticed today that they’ve put up these heads on sticks.
the sculpturer is great at faces, but is lacking when it comes to hats and bodies.
or perhaps they are people with really long knecks and their bodies are underground ? if you go down to St Paul’s tube station you can see their feet dangling through the tunnel ceilings. possibly.
ludgate house
i worked near this clock for 3 years but never spotted it. funny how time sometimes passes by without us noticing.
glove and st pauls
this wasn’t actually an abandoned glove, but it was nicely positioned for a photo with St Paul’s in the background.
nothing’s on
this theatre is proudly advertising nothing. all it’s advertising had been painted black. but they still had all the fancy light bulbs illuminating it.
a note from elton
i just received the following from my friend elton:
just a note to say, if you put a convex mirror in the corner of your lounge, you can get the reality T.V. experience without electricity or licence fee!(you can have an argument with yourself, whilst you drink tea, and look around the room at the same time!) love to all.
P.S. the mirror could be used for games if you can think of any!
