in emergency break glass
belgian is the country of cartoons so it was no surprise to see that this was the medium used to describe the serious process of smashing a window to escape from a bus in an emergency.
October 2004
death on the street
you never know when death will catch up with you. if you go to brussels you may find that you end up walking straight in to him like i did a few weeks back.
phab-ulous
this lady let me take a picture of her collecting money for phab. I don’t often give money to street collectors as you can never be too sure where the money will end up.
But i made an exception for her as she looked fantastic, was really jolly, and was representing a good charity.
london’s olympic bid
do you think this is part of London’s olympic bid?
how they taunt me
so far so good. still no chocolate since monday morning. but i was quite tempted by this toblerone in the street.
and when i got home there was a chocolate catalog on the floor ! and in our band practice this evening jane gave out chocolate biscuits to everyone.
(but on the fantastic side i did get to shake John Stott‘s hand this lunchtime)
extinguisher on patrol
random extinguisher in a random street.
letter conservation
see how this stationery shop has saved money by reusing the letter t in stationary. they could have reused the letter ‘a’ too (if they’d spelt it wrong like i have]. but they didn’t. lukcily.
the end result is partially unintelligable. which i like.
don’t mix drink and drugs
here’s some good advice readers. you’ll do well to remember these words.
the door in the puddle
i was going to dive in to this puddle and open the door.
but i didn’t.
in the days before post-its
one good thing about the dark mornings is that you can see in to people’s offices as you walk to work !
here is an office with pieces of paper taped to the walls. it’s the remains of a brainstorm no doubt. perhaps for short sighted people ?
i’m sure one of the pieces of paper said “buy some post-its”. but i could be wrong.
a bollard’s magic carpet
it’s a rare sight to see a bollard on its favourite type of transport, so i did well to catch this bollard on it’s flourescent magic carpet.
(note how dark it is in the mornings in london at this time of year)
not a film set
here are a load of beer barrels piled up in an action movie type way. the police car just adds to the unlikelyness of it all.
you’ll be pleased to know that no car came hurtling through whilst i was watching. (in fact a few minutes later all the barrels had been loaded on to a lorry and taken away)
outside toilet
a little room with a view in the middle of the thames (between Tate Modern and St Pauls’ Cathedral).
there’s loads of obvious jokes here, but i shall avoid making any of them.
