small man and a big bag
i took this photo at the beginning of june. since then unaccompanied rucksacks have become objects of suspicion in london. how i long for those innocent days.
August 2005
a dies
a dies. the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning. alphabetically speaking
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kindly sent by reader keith who spotted it in “the cut”, waterloo
a different dog
not a great one this as it was taken out of a car window as we speeded by. but if you look above the standard ‘infinity dog sign‘ you can see a different sort of dog.
st katherine’s dock
st katherine’s dock was previously beyond my range of walking from paddington but since i’ve started getting in to paddington at 7am having already done an hours work i’ve allowed my morning trecks to extend. meaning i can get to a 9am meeting over there with time to spare.
if ever you visit the Tower of London, or Tower Bridge, you should make time for wander round the very pretty docks
BBC radio berkshire
i mentioned that there were other famous people at the wedding, and here they are.
Soose works for BBC Radio Berkshire and two of the presenters were there:
Andrew Peach:
Phil Kennedy
and then there was this lady who it turns out has the best most famous job of all. she’s the voice of some of the UK’s major banks’ telephone announcements.
so when you’ve been left on hold and a disembodied voice says ‘please accept our apologies for the long wait, we are aware of your call etc’, it could be her voice !
i’ve deliberately not mentioned her name so she won’t be found here via Google.
service stations
for all round fantastic futuristic architecture, you can’t beat Lancaster (Forton) services (more here). shouldn’t all buildings look like this by now ?
these photos were taken out of the window as we drove by
it gives the impression they cook using nuclear power
My all-time favourite service station, for all round loveliness is the Killington Lake one (southbound only, up by the lakes somewhere). It’s got its own little lake and would make a nice destination in itself. i only took a picture of the sign this time though.
service station food
here is a pile of greasy breakfast fodder
but here’s is my excellent sausage sandwich. note the heinz ketchup in the background. terric.
retro techno
this establishment already looks dated. just a few years back it would have been cutting edge
oyster
as most of you will know, i rarely use the tube, preferring to walk wherever possible to optimise the chance of taking some blogable photos. which is also why i’m averaging 80km (50 miles) walking per week.
however, my life changed on 23 May 2005 (you can tell i’ve been working through my archives) when i bought an Oyster card. i love swiping so much it’s nearly enough to tempt me back under the street.
of course that was before the recent badness, but even so it appears you are much more likely to get splatted above the ground as you are under it. you can see the splats stats here
anyway, here i am looking very excited to receive my new Oyster pass at Westminster tube one evening.
celebrity wedding
yesterday we were privileged enough to get to go to the wedding of top celebrities Soose and Anders.
here they are looking for confetti love hearts that the children had hidden in some plant pots for them
and here are shoes as worn by the groom and a best man:
and here are the bride’s shoes:
Soose was one of the finalists on Pop Idol
Andrew is the drummer with Pure Reason Revolution
and finally the groom’s parents who are also our daughters’ prayer parents which makes them prayer sister-in-laws to soose i guess ?
there were a few more ‘celebrities’ there, including someone totally cool who’d you’d never guess, but i’ll post them up tomorrow … (now here)
so, it was a celebrity wedding, but it was also very definately a Christian wedding which is the most fantastic celebration of all !
slippery bridge
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say NO to strangers
it’s a tarantino version of this one.
evolution
this reminds me of one of those ‘ages of man’ evolution posters.
