all the old ones had melted
nobody likes old ice-cubes.
October 2004
acces only
this skip is acces only meaning once you’ve climbed in you can’t climb out.
unless ‘acces’ isn’t a mispelling of the word ‘access’, but in fact a different word which means “you can put stuff in AND take it out”
classic metal coat hanger
they make these out of old car aerials you know …
tea-bag accelerometer
this was a nice touch. it’s a dangly tea bag outside the window on my train this morning. it had been dipped in milky tea so left a trail behind as it swung backwards and forwards as the train accelerated.
so, what we ended up with was a time based wind splodge showing the trains’ acceleration ! what a great idea.
sadly these photos don’t do it justice, but i think you can see what i was getting at.
esther’s first school disco
esther went to her first school disco last night. as her father i was very anxious. but all went well.
here she is warming up
thin ice cream
this sign was just outside the permiter of the toilet roll ranger, but it wouldn’t surprise me if his (or her) jurisdiction had been extended.
the sign said ‘danger thin ice’. there certainly wasn’t any ice on the little pond so it must have been very thin.
or perhaps it was referring to the giant ice-cream painted on the wall next to the sign. that was as thin as some dried pain. which is quite thin. i think.
a tough job
this sign was in the window of this little house by a play park in Hull.
i hope people read the sign before they go and do their ‘do’s. if not they’d have to gingerly waddle up to the window and knock whilst hoping no-one would see.
and who is this toilet roll dispensing duty ranger ? i bet he counts the sheets out one by one. i hope he rides a horse. rangers should do that kind of thing.
nothing but a potty
i passed an historic chemist which was being refurbished a few weeks back. the only thing insider was this potty which is a very strange colour.
£1 for designer trousers
i think there’s a reason this pair of trousers might be £1.
it’s a flare.
noel gallagher
the second celebrity i saw last evening was none other than global megastar noel gallagher (of oasis fame).
he was simply swaggering slowly across marylebone high street without a care in the world. he’s a funny looking chap. and i was surprised he wasn’t surrounded by bouncers.
bizarrely i have been looking out for him for the last week since i discovered he lives in a muse house just off the north end of the marylebone high street.
i approached him and said “can i take your photo please ?” (in the same way i had to michael burke a few minutes earlier). He raised his hand in a ‘no thanks’ kind of way and off he wandered. but we did have eye contact !
so i took a photo (without flash) as he walked off. Oasis have a bit of a violent history in relation to the paparazzi so i didn’t want to make him think i’d taken a decent photo of him !
michael burke (again)
when i left my office last night i thought to myself “the only celebrities i see are either c-list non-bodies, comedians or nigel havers. i then got worried that i don’t watch telly enough and i may be seeing loads of celebrities in my daily life and not realising it.
so i set off and i convinced myself i was going to see three famous people. i did see two though (about 1km apart).
the first was michael burke the BBC newsreader. i did a google for him so that you non-UK readers can learn all about him.
i was surprised to see that my last spotting of him was the number one hit ! try it here
click to admire him in his fullness
the other celebrity is here
fruit snap
i was eating a banana on the way back to the station last night. as i turned the corner i nearly bumped in to a man who was also eating a banana.
we were both dressed similarly and both listening to headphones.
i spontaneously shouted “snap!”. in the micro-second that followed before we passed we both gave each other a huge grin.
i’ve a friend who had a Citreon 2CV and he used to hoot and wave at other 2CV cars as a friendly jesture.
maybe it’s the same with fruit – it’s just i don’t know because i’m normally stuffing chocolate (a more selfish food) down my face.
the perfect function
this one takes me back to my educational days, particularly my engineering maths courses. Functions were a tricky thing (as was the rest of my course for my pudding-brain).
if only i’d known these people could have designed me a perfect one i wouldn’t have bothered.
late night upholstery
i’ve written before about underground train upholstery. here is the circle line seat covers again. this time with sync flash to add to the madness.
it’s like we’re stuck in a 1980s computer graphics flash back thing. i seem to remember spending days typing programmes (spelt in the english way back then) from magazines in to my BBC model B computer to make it display similar patterns to these seat covers. of course they’d never work as the computer would crash before you ran them, or the tape would never load back in.
oh happy days.
web-landlord makes the papers
remember matt and nancy’s wedding a couple of weeks back ?
well, you can read about it in their local paper. definately worth having a look.
it made me chuckle.
muchly.
trolley in the office
a trolley. a fan. our new water thing. all exciting office things.
the glove plant folly
i thought i’d seen a nice purple glove in a plant pot this morning but it turned out to be these plants (with a spoon nestling in the background).
i was quite glad they were just plants as i was concerned that someone had stolen my new business plan, which is to create a line of knitted goods which have more than the usual set of parts.
i’m thinking of 6 (or more) fingered gloves. you’d still be able to wear them, you’d just have an extra finger hole available.
or what about a jumper with three arms ? Or trousers with three legs ?
is anyone willing to prototype any of the above for me ? i think we could be on to something with the 6 (or more) fingered gloves so perhaps we should start there.
i think this art-concept (for that is what it is my friends) needs a name. something along the lines of ‘extra-digits’ or ‘more-of-the-same’ but i’m sure you can help me here.
be great to get something in the shops before Christmas.
discovering art
i walked past this piece of board on the floor and a few steps later i stopped and went back to it.
i thought it looked a bit like the back of a cheap picture frame. so i took a photo of it undisturbed then gently lifted it up and leant it against the wall.
who would have thought such a [insert your own adjective here] picture would be left lying in the street.
