two herons in a tree
here they are a bit closer up
November 2005
we can hardly believe it ourselves
YES ! EVERY ITEM IS A POUND !
the heaviest dog sign ?
it turned out there were loads of these dog signs all over edinburgh, most (if not all?) had their weight on the side.
i wasn’t sure whether these posts were actually for doggy use ?
tomato flavoured pepsi
esther went to a party yesterday afternoon so we took kezia for some ice-cream in pizza hut. she was very concerned that we knew that the pepsi didn’t taste of tomato, even though there was a picture of it on the container.
for american readers, when i say tomato i actually mean tomato.
how to build an electric windmill
we happened to drive past this windmill being constructed yesterday so we stood and watched as the propellers were lifted in to place. quite amazing.
coffee pot reflections
note the jolly waitress !
guineas on the loose
jane was busy doing a toy sale at preschool yesterday so i took the girls to the various curious Wellplace Zoo.
the place has free-range guinea pigs everywhere. esther counted 32 but i think there may have been some double counting as they kept running down little cut-throughs.
in addition to the guinea pigs and taxidermy (nothing is wasted!) they have a collection of fibre-glass dinosaurs !
this one was holding the no-guinea-grabbing sign
expect lots of photos over the next few weeks (i’ll spread them out so we don’t have zoo animal overload).
a mad man shouting at a sausage
there was a fancy meal in a Scottish gallery on one night of my conference last week. we sat amongst all the famous paintings and ate our scran.
this chap shouted like a complete madman at this sausage for about 5 minutes before we were served with haggis. i think i’m going to adopt shouting at haggis in to our family dining routine
here’s the starter (haggis, neep and tattis i think)
scottish beef
scottish chocolate pudding
of course if you’d tried setting up a table and having a meal during the day you would have been thrown out:
rob parsons
jane and i went to Oxford last night for the Returning Home The Prodigals (a quick skim of the front page of this website explains what it’s about). It was very good.
rob parsons
Rob Parson wrote all those excellent “The Sixty Minute”
great train journeys of the world
getting the train from london to edinburgh should be one of those epic train journeys. but it wasn’t realy. but it had its moments, like this one, which is a power station with a nice field in front of it.
rubber duck
it’s such a small thing, but having a plastic duck in a hotel bathroom is a great idea
the edinburgh cleaning lorry incident
at first it wasn’t clear what i could see, but i knew it was going to be good:
a rival white cleaning company wanted to stop the green cleaners from cleaning their patch. rather like the great ice-cream wars, these chaps are fiercely protective of their patch
in the end the chap from the white van ran out and physically stopped the green one from going any further.
