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June 2004

back stage

the west end of london is great. you can walk down the street and a door opens and you see in to the back of a theatre stage !
here is one such event. note the back of the moose heads and a load of carbon dioxide.
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3D

it’s nice to see people stepping outside of the 2D picture world. i have big plans to make this blog 3D.
watch this space.
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(actually i have no such plans, but it would be nice)

fag ends in a plastic bag

i used to know a guy who would always ask me if i had any cigarettes i could give him. i don’t smoke so i always said no. he would then inform me that it didn’t matter as he would pick up some tab ends off the street.
that was over 10 years ago but i hear he’s still going through the same routine with passing strangers.
maybe he’s got a franchise going on or a brother in london with the same make-do attitude.
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invisible mending

“these trousers have still got a hole in the knee. are you sure you mended them”
“yes sir”.
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fire safety #2

pubs in the UK are having to be more careful. the latest fire regulations state that if you have any wooden furniture you need to keep a fire extinguisher nearby.
here we see this pubs fire extinguisher next to two wooden benches.
it was sitting quietly by the wall until i approached it. At which point it jumped up and ran at me as i took this photo waving its pipe at me.
luckily i escaped in time.
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they’ve locked my cupboard

this is a street cabinet which houses telecoms equipment. every day for the last 3 years its doors have been open to reveal its technical contents. every morning i walk by and swing its doors closed.
but first i climb in and have a little rest before continuing my journey.
so, imagine my dissapointment this morning to see my old friendly cabinet with it’s secret world of hidden tunnels and compartments blocked off from the public with red tape.
“no entry” it says. “pah” i say.
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half a poppy

half a poppy by the train station
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bulbs

spring is in the air and the bulbs are bursting forth. these bulbs are gathering in a tangled mess.
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sun glasses

are glasses the new gloves ?
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the horrendous cup mix up

i’ve been on a voice call all morning. whilst chatting i noticed some disquiet outside my office window. it was harry and the drinks machine man.
apparently there had been a mix up with plastic cups. can you BELIEVE this kind of thing can happen in the modern world.
luckily our man Harry spotted the problem and everything is alright again now.
here is ‘harry two cups’ with the vexatiously varient vessels:
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one side of the street

i walk down this street every day:

today i walked down the opposite side and i took a photo of all the different bits of metalwork inserted in to the pavement.:

The street is only a few 100 metres long but has a quite a variety of man hole covers
i took one photo of each type. if you can’t see them below then go here
(a desktop size picture is here)

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keys

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the sun has come back

hoorah. it’s sunny again today. here is an abandoned brolly on a pub bench taking a well needed rest.
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frontless

this building looks more precarious each time i pass it. it’s now suspended in mid air.
The giders in the foreground are not connected to the main building. The main building is apparently made of a number of floating floors.
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here is a man working on the corner of a floater (again that stick below him is in the foreground and nothing to do with the building):
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jesus is gone

i can’t believe it. i missed jesus. i went out of my way to see him this morning.
luckily other people saw it for me.
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glove

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esther’s art

esther painted this today. i asked her what it was and she said she just wanted to paint something that looked nice, so it’s just shapes and colours connected.
i’m biased of course, but i think it looks great !

here is another piece from the same session:
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