don’t eat smelly poo
juvenile ? yes. but it did make me chuckle when i saw it on a train full of unimpressed commuters.
July 2004
london in the evening
my meetings finished quite late last night so i walked down the South Bank towards a convenient tube station. on the way there were various street entertainments, including this band. London nearly manages to be quite european at time.
mobile office
finally the Starbucks next to Ofcom, the telecoms regulator where i spend lots of my week, has got wifi ! So, at last i can access my emails when i have ‘trapped time’ between meetings.
they have nice cakes and funky music too. i can see myself spending a lot of time in here …
psycylists
i’ve told of my annoyance over mobile phone using cyclists and their random veerage in to pedestrians. here is a variation on the same theme. it’s a chap carrying an umbrella being blown about whilst cycling down a pedestrian walk way.
wet
a normally busy view:
shelter from the rain
it’s drizzling this morning and i’m over the other side of town for meetings throughout today. i decided to shelter in a sculpture at one very wet bit. here was my view:
it’s a meat market in here
the roof in Smithfield Market is amazing. it’s practical beauty is a contrast to the slabs of meat being dragged around beneath it.
rebuilding the wall
to be honest London wall has seen much better days. since the city stopped being walled-in it’s been left to fester and there’s only a few places where you can see it around the town.
i was therefore very pleased to see they might be rebuilding it. anti-terrorism and all that i imagine.
exquisite bollard
it’s the daddy of the bollards. a real beauty. but why has it got its ‘no entry’ sign on the wrong side ?
not much work, not much danger
this is a hearty sign usually associated with major road excavations. today it denoted a small amount of mud on the street.
still, better safe than sorry.
a net
street fishing is all the rage. there’s an ugly side involving dragnet fishing which involves scooping up entire streets.
more traditional is the street lobster pot. this one has caught a chocolate bar over night.
mixing your words up
you don’t get this kind of thing on the web. i might spell stuff wrong and have rubbish grammar but at least my words don’t slide off the page like they did in last night’s Evening Standard
christian letter closes
it’s been a while since we’ve had any Christian letter closes on the blog, so here is a fresh one. you can use this for the next 8 months until i give you a new one. ready ? here goes:
Until His appearing
run ! fire ! run !
it’s our old friend again. this time doing a runner whilst being chased by wires.
pirates
there’s a big anti DVD piracy thing going on in the UK at the moment. here is the campaign on the street. it’s teeny weeny bill boards on the back of sit down bikes.
walter goes quite mad
here is walter attacking himself with some wires.
