May 2006
christies’ auction of street signs
Our old blog-friend Laurence of Christies (job title: Specialist, Mechanical Music and Technical Apparatus) dropped me an email to tell me there’s an auction on which may be of interest to funkypancake readers, especially those who love street signs.
he sent me these pictures and there’s more in the guidebook
The sale is on the 31st May and more details can be found here (signs start from lot 221)
There’s a few street signs including one of a tube station which no longer exists !
some pictures of the street signs in an office (click for big)
thames path – part 4 hailstone hill to castle eaton
here was our first sighting of the thames on this part of the walk
kezia said “everytime we walk the Thames Path it rains” and yesterday was no exception. it fact the rain was exception – in quantity. we were soaked to the bone. but i got to wear my military poncho which was a boon
to begin with things weren’t too muddy, but with the wind and the rain it soon got very slippery and muddy. this was quite a nice bit near the beginning
obligatory pooh-sticks
things weren’t helped by a sudden jump in undergrowth meaning we lost sight of the path quite a lot. These weeds were higher than esther’s head !
we’re making slow progress round the path (it’s taken us 4 days to go the walk which the book says should be doable in a day). but then we have got a 4 year old with us !
disaster averted
good news – i managed to rebuild the boot sector on my dead hard-drive (like you do) and have managed to recover all my photo archives – (more than 44,000 photos or 62.7GB). I also saved my ‘pending’ blog photos including of snow i still haven’t posted yet !
so, hoorah for TestDisk which is great for recovering dead hard drives or harddrives or hard-drives