November 2004
aaargh chocolate
at what point will this get easier ? i’m still absolutely desperate for chocolate. it’s been over three weeks now.
and still chocolate haunts me. this easter egg was outside paddington station. and yesterday i found a full packet of smarties in my jacket pocket (must have been places there by one of my daughters last week).
glove
glove in luscious green grass.
luscious is a word which used to be used a lot by teenage girls (when i was a teenage boy). as in “that’s so lush”.
maybe they still do.
i also saw this rubber glove and its suspicious looking bag (which was empty)
UPDATE: Having not seen the word Lush for nearly 20 years, i saw it an hour after posting this picture. see hear (look sea)
window cleaners
i spotted this chap last night standing by a street cabinet. he had his laptop and a little TV screen so i wandered round behind him to see what was going on.
this is obviously the control point for one of the congestion cameras and there was a bloke up a ladder somewhere cleaning the camera.
where i was standing it was a like there was a little man trapped in the monitor giving the window a clean with a wet cloth.
most peculiar
FLAGS !
it’s weird going back to work after having a week with the fambily. i miss not listening to the same tape of winnie the pooh multiple times each day. i also miss not shouting “FLAG!” out loud every time i see a flag (as is popular with the female members of our household).
so here, as a reminder of just a few days ago, are a load of flags so we can all shout flag flag flag flag together.
we can pretend we’re all one one big happy bloggy fambily.
hoorah.
nothing is wasted
here’s your comedy stuffed animal pictures of the week. it’s from flamingo park on the Isle of Wight. They have a small display of statues and fluffy animals in a barn you can look at if it’s raining.
For some reason someone had dressed up these two flamingos on the right in sailor’s gear. even more disturbing was the dreadlocked saucy-santa wearing a festive fluffy bikini.
esther pointed out that they looked like real flamingos which had been stuffed. which they did.
bollard in the wood
i was sent this bollard by our lovely friends in the photogenic north.
richard writes “thought you might be able to empathise with this poor bollard found savaged in a wood near us… I think it is the Blair Witch Bollard”
luckily, i’ve never been savaged in a wood, so i cannot empathise with this bollard. i can guess how he feels though …
click to inspect
birds which can fold themselves away
i love the way birds fold themselves away when they are sleeping. this flamingo and pelican are both compacting themselves down for a rest.
but what about this penguin which seemed to have a removable head ? one minute it was standing there with its head on the top of its neck, the next moment it wasn’t:
yellow hoses
two short yellow hoses (viewed from each end)
portable dog sign
this is a Dog Warden’s roving dog poop warning sign. it’s quite an old sign – London telephone numbers changed format ages ago.
This indicates that there’s been no inflationary pressure on the maximum fine associated with ‘fouling’ over this period. Perhaps there are other pressures keeping this price down.
Of course the whole dog fouling problem would be solved if dog’s rear delivered gold rather than the current stuff. then owners would be very keen to pick it up and take it home.
So either someone’s got to invent a way of making dogs drop gold or else we need a dog poop to gold converting machine which would result in a financial value being attributed to each doggie do.
as the saying goes: where’s there’s muck there’s brass. (note the two/three hidden words in ‘brass’).
this bollard isn’t going anywhere
such is their commitment that, even when seriously injured, a bollard will still report for duty.
kezia grows up
kezia had her first day at pre-school yesterday and absolutely loved it. she made a whale which she painted herself.
To celebrate her growing up she was also allowed to sit at the dinner table on a grown ups chair for tea. She understands it’s a probationary period and any messing will result in her being relegated back to her old chair.
how life whizzes by.
boy 50
i returned from holiday to find my colleague Telco John had found this passport photo for me. what a nice thing to return to.
see it on www.davescollections.com
