August 2009
roller blading business man climbs some stairs
i wouldn’t attempt this in roller blades, even if i was wearing a safety hat and a safety tie. i was a bit worried following him up the stairs. luckily nothing untowards happened.
strange bird in hyde park
what sort of bird is this that was wobbling round hyde park yesterday ? let me know i you can brave the commenting system. or comment on the flickr picture here
update: turns out it’s a Northern Lapwing or peewit. as you were everybody
redacted leaving lunch
i went out for a leaving lunch with my department chums yesterday. very nice it was too. although it was interesting to note the menus had been redacted.
luckily the dinners themselves weren’t.
dog collar
an excellent dog sign from new zealand here. but just look what the owner is wearing.
not content with cutting themselves in to quaters and having one arm longer than the other, they’ve also taken to wearing a rather natty shirt collar. a dog collar perhaps ?
legs in a van
i was having a morning tea with the excellent alex from samknows earlier this week and spotted these legs in a van. using all my quick drawer training i grabbed the shot with only minimum interruption to the conversation.
a lot of cars now have legs fitted like this. it’s a kind of do it yourself version of a hybrid car, and helps solve both the nation’s obesity and unemployment problems.
i’m becoming an unemployment problem as of next week. i plan to eat nothing but cake for the first week to bulk myself up for this kind of work.
don’t feed jigsaws to seagulls
thanks to georgina for sending this excellent example of jigsaw etiquette from the sea side.
we learn that seagulls make a mess and can get aggressive. same can be said for many of the visiting tourists after 9pm i suspect.
page 39
there’s a definite feel to ‘wrapping up’ when i go in to london these days, so it’s fantastic when i see some old familiar themes interpreted in new ways.
one such thing is the strange habit of the large posters in paddington station having Page numbers ! there really can be no reason for it. and that is why we love them so.
slow portrait 10 – em
it’s been a while since we’ve had any slow portraits. here is one i did yonks ago. there’s another one coming in the next day or so. exciting isn’t it ?
bashed up birthday box
this was the state of the box that my new birthday laptop arrived in. luckily the laptop was fine. hoorah.
pedestrians
i saw this and had a look to see what it was. and then i found out. so now we all know
bashing a computer hard disk drive with a hammer
definitely one to listen to with the sound up nice and loud