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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
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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)
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uncalibrated measuring sticks

both of these sticks are measuring the depth of the thames. there’s some discrepancy between the readings.
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happy 70th

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my father-in-law turned 70 last Saturday. i used to think 70 was incredibly old, but now it doesn’t seem so amazingly old. It’s still impressive though!

buttercups

i walked through a field and picked a buttercup. it’s funny how people leave their buttocks lying around.
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(sorry – old joke)

kezia’s baby factory

here are kezia’s toy babies on shelves. there’s something very sci-fi about this.
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thames path – part 4 hailstone hill to castle eaton

here was our first sighting of the thames on this part of the walk
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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
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obligatory pooh-sticks
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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 !
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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 !
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disaster averted

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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

wood

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