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November 2004

train sign

matt, the webserver landlord sent me this picture of a “Bewildering Array of things to do on a Chiltern Clubman train”.
he’s got a better grasp of capital letters than i have !
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in a hole

this was a car apparently stuck in tarmac. of course it was just a full size replica car used as an advert thing. but i was impressed (as was the car)
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christmas lights

oh dear. xmas lights are up already. i saw the one on the left near the Ivy yesterday lunch time and the Bond Street ones flashing away in the evening time.
why don’t they just leave them up all year ?
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new purchase

jane bought a new vacuum cleaner yesterday. after years of good labour, our old one converted itself in to a loud dust blowing device.
here is jane with her dyson. she was very pleased. and shocked/excited by the amount of cack it picked up off our carpet.
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a jug for a mug

my usually very quiet office has become very noisey of late. people have moved their desks in to what was a conference room and we are now much more than we ever were before.
the result has been less fridge space, more noise and a lack of suitable drinking vessels. i’ve resorted to drinking from a milk jug.
actually, it turns out the handle is better than a mug and you get more drink in so i may have turned a potential disaster in to a stunning drinking container victory.
here i am considering the situation:
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esther’s poem about trains

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esther wrote a story about trains. it goes like this:
chuffa chuffa, choo choo, on the track
where are you going clickety clack
off to london, then we’re coming back
chuffa chuffa, choo choo, on the track
here are esther and kezia performing it for you. Download file (500K).

beware of trains

jaunty angle. good advice.
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here’s some more advice. don’t risk disaster:
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big eye

there is a problem with things, particularly bits of signs, getting washed away/falling off on the Isle of Wight.
here is a good example. it’s a ‘big eye’ which is the symbol of the Isle of Wight tourist board. but most of it’s worn off so it’s just a big eye.
not to be confused with Big Eye Tony of course.
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travelling to the isle of wight

i was very nervous about travelling to the isle of wight because you have to go on a ferry. and i’m not good on transport. which is why i walk everywhere.
it was a wet and windy day and the boat was quite rocky. but it’s only a short distance over a secluded bay. i thought isle of wight was near france. but it wasn’t.
here is someone else’s ferry:
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and here we are enjoying luxury corned beef sandwiches on the luxury ferry:
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when we arrived i was dissapointed to discover that they drove on the same side of the road as us, used english pounds and even spoke english. how frightfully british.

we love portsmouth

portsmouth is home to some quite dreadful buildings. this one was being pulled down as we drove by in the rain. the graffiti worked well i thought.
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Simon Mayo

i walked past ex radio 1 dj simon mayo. it was dark and my flash wasn’t on (and you wouldn’t have wanted a flash photo of the back of his head anyway).
so here he is in blurry greatness. interestingly, the bench on the bottom right of the photo is where i saw a long-haired richard e grant over the summer enjoying a al fresco drink (but failed to realise it was him until i was on the next street).
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purple and yellow

a fantastic mess. it looks like a person sitting down. sort of.
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Lush

would you believe it, about an hour after writing this i saw the word lush written on a box in the street !
it was the kind of box which would have had tomatoes (another blog post this morning) in.
what a bizarre circular morning.
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