June 2005
Tower 42
i got to go to a meeting up Tower 42 this week (also known as the Natwest Tower)
the conference room is only half way up the tower and you can only look out one side, but it was still very impressive.
i took plenty of photos of course. click on the pictures below to get the full sized version (which are very big) and do your own exploring:
the thames, bank, tate modern, westminster in the background
st paul’s, BT tower in the distance
barbican and a couple of other new tall buildings
another view of westminster
it was a rainy day anyway, but by the time we stopped the meeting for coffee it got very rainy
it kind of made me think about what london might have been like in the smog. without the london eye of course
looking down from the 24th floor (see the people below with umberellas)
a nice letter
Ed
Thanks v much – made my life possible. hope theatre was fun. parked as instructed !
shadow quiz
Vin sent me this puzzle for you. it’s a shadow, but of what ?
first person to guess correctly get all our respect !
once someone’s guessed i’ll put up the picture which proves it a bit later.
click for big if you want to study in detail (it’s all clicking for bigness today isn’t it ?)
answer here: View image
speedy slow thing
i saw this snail on a wall as i walked to get my train at ten to 6 this morning. it was really zooming along and i got a bit freaked out that it was going to climb up the camera lense.
so i took as many shots as i could then ran to get my train. which itself was a quite a slow thing.
i’m quite impressed by the detail on a snail’s head. click the pic to inspect the big version.
flowers of some sort
you know how useless i am at flowers and stuff. well i do know something about these things. their flowers are actually ears and they are on of the few plants that can actually listen to their environment.
fact.
stop photography
a whole mixture of signs here for you to enjoy
dummy wedged down a drain
a dummy stuck down a classic waterway mk 2 drain cover.
close up:
safe streets
this is a funny old picture. i don’t know about you, but looking at the big version (click it boyo) makes me want to fall over.
best of all is the writing on the hat which says ‘City of Westminster, Safe Streets’. They are obviously making the streets safer for pedestrians by giving them free construction hats.
