bike ride
we went on a massive bike ride today.
here is kezia waiting to board her bike seat:
we had a picnic in a random field:
and the girls picked (and ate) blackberries:
August 2004
entries
it’s a village show tomorrow. here are my photo entries. they still need sticking on the cardboard. time is running out and tiredness is running in. an exciting day due tomorrow. (note the final pub picture!)
food fall down
unfortunately, due to a number of factors, the take-away dinner fell down the fridge and on to the floor. it was ok though. and still tasted great (the rest of it, not the floored stuff)
window
here is a window. who needs photoshop when you can make your own filters by placing pictures on the other side of fancy windows ?
dishwasher
there’s a dishwasher in the street down the road from my house. imagine how old fashioned that house is, having an outside dishwasher. just like the old days.
anyway, here is a photo on the way to the pub and a little bit more daring on the way back. brother kevin has opened the device to check the level of the contents, which he agreed was very executive. did you hear that ? “executive”.
how they taunt me
i’m working from home today which is good as it’s thunder and lightning and massive winds and rain. but it does mean i’m missing a few fantastic signs which have popped up outside my office !
luckily john has walter’s camera and here the pictures sent to me by the method of email
it’s a sign of the times:
no old dears:
give always:
attraction
it’s obvious really, but bollards are attracted to other bright objects. work men in tabards, flourescent tape, giant yellow skips:
swedish bollards
these two bollards are trying to help this sign stand up straight. “good on ’em” i say
lugshury accomodation
exactly a week ago, jane and i went to the hotel diplomat in stockholm for a weekend. it was totally fantastic. here are pictures of our bedroom / sitting room / office
the view from the window was amazing too. more pictures on this to follow.
the world’s smallest changing table ?
airplane interiors are quite small so like caravans everything is designed to be space efficient. this is most obvious in the toilets where everything has a function to assist you in your functions.
even i was shocked by the size of this teeny weeny metal baby changing table. it was only about 3 centimetres long and 1 centimetre wide. they tried to confuse us by putting an even smaller sign next to it, but i’m not stupid.
in flight food
i’m much happier with this modern picnic food you get on airplanes. it’s much more to my taste
glasses on the wing
the writing on wings of modern airplanes tell us to not stand on certain parts. in my experience it’s better not to stand on any part of an airplane’s wing. in fact, i think it’s much better to just stay inside the airplane.
jane was very pleased to see they’d glued some yellow glasses to the top of the wing.
sandwiches for small people
i worry about small people and how they can’t see things that taller people can. luckily in Heathrow airport the Harrods shop has addressed this by putting signs on the under-side of its normal signs.
the advertising could have been a bit more targeted: “premium sandwiches to make you grow big and tall”.
or even better “kids, why not nag your parents in to buying you some Harrods chocolates” ?
slippery in Heathrow
surely the most manic of all the slippery floor signs ? one from the slapstick comedy school of sign writing:
Stateside poo news
Brad also sent me this picture of a hound from the Bronx, NY. i can see a whole raft of US lawsuits by poo-pickers if they try and copy this man’s poo-picking posture:
bollard zoo
Brad sent me this photo of captive bollards. is it right to keep them like this ? i’m not sure. surely they should be roaming free on the roads.
Brad writes: [this] is a Bollard petting zoo with beefy Bronx sized bollards. One is escaping.
a picture
esther’s art
