kezia in a big girls bed
exciting life milestones – kezia is spending her first night in a big bed.
so far, so good (ie she’s asleep!)
post box instructions
here is a post box. traditional, but still quite interesting. it’s actually a siamese box. these post boxes are caused in the factor if the post box raw material doesn’t split properly in the early stages of their development.
whoever painted this one got a little carried away with the red paint. in the days when i had long hippy hair (a few feet in length) i once dyed it pillar box red (Elton did it for me the first time). And flamingo pink. but that was a different time.
notice the sign on top of this box which points the way to the nearest post box. they’ll probably need to change a few of these arrows since they are shutting lots of post offices down.
and how’s this for good instructions. ignoring the paint job, it’s worth considering what other types of box you would put your letters in and how ineffectual they would be.
shoe boxes, sandwich boxes, theatre boxes and match boxes would all prove quite useless i imagine.
danger, heavy plant crossing
is it just me or have plants and trees recently started to climb out of the ground and move around ?
thanks to my new train timetable, i now get in to London just before 7am which means i see things that others don’t. like the trees going back to bed after their nights roaming the streets.
here are a couple of trees easing themselves back to bed:
and here is a little tree in a plant pot with some small plants still waiting to jump back in:
doorless phone box
here is a phone box without a door. except it has got a door. only it’s lying on the floor next to it rather than in the door hole.
so, for the purposes of anyone attempting to make a phone call, it may as well be doorless. which is why i called it a doorless phone box.
white lines
these parallel lines are quite nice to look at. imagine if you were a small monkey scampering round the streets of london. this is probably how it would look.
person’s view:
small monkey’s view:
the bollard stand off remains
i took a look at our friendly bollards this morning to see how they were getting on after yesterday’s argument. The tree has gone, but it seems the stand-off still remains.
but look closely at the bollard which is furthest away – there’s a little puddle there which suggests it’s been crying.
the art of glove photography
there’s different ways of taking photos of gloves. generally i go for the reportage approach and simply take them as they lie.
occasionally i like to indulge myself in a little creative photography to liven what can, occasionally, be a slightly mundane photographic subject.
so, here is a negative image of a glove on some railings:
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and here is the same glove taken with a long exposure with the street panning out behind it:
the bins
this bin appears to be on his way to work with his briefcase under his arm:
whilst this one was trying to sell me his telly:
“i bought this thing, but i haven’t got any eyes, and i’ve already got a radio, so i wondered if you’d be interested in buying it sir ?” were his exact words
dangerous glove photography
it’s not always easy to get photos of gloves. these two were in the middle of quite a busy road junction outside Paddington Station.
i had to pre-focus my camera and dodge traffic to get the second of these photos !
unless you know what you are doing, i urge you not to follow my example.
finding bicycles
i’ve decided to formalise the bike signs and set up their own category. if i have time i’ll go back through the archives and recategorise some old pictures.
here are a few signs i pass every morning to get us started. There’s usually a way round most of these signs.
for example, in this case, you just need to hide your bike. if they can’t find it, they won’t remove it:
here is a no bikes sign with a long explanation (including the threat of having your bike towed away!):
and here is a very short sign:
what a difference a day makes
i took this photo of two bollards having a chat in the street yesterday morning. one had a januty hat, and i suspect they were talking about something but it seemed rude to stop and listen.
this morning it was a different story. the two of them looked quite stand-offish. i noticed there was a christmas tree between them so perhaps that’s relevant.
i suspect old jaunty-hat wanted to have it up all year round, but no-hat didn’t want to. i once had a christmas tree up for three years. but then i took it down.
cokes on walls
my absolute favouritist favourite thing about doing this blog is spotting strange themes on my walk to the office. it’s often not until the end of the walk i realise what the theme was and by then it’s too late to go back and get the pictures.
so i find myself taking pictures of everything just in case i find another one a bit later.
today’s theme (albeit a mini-theme) was ‘coke on railings’.
here was my first find. i took two photos of this one:
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when i saw this i thought it might be a new way of encouragin recycling. i think people would be more likely to do it if they could display their empties along railings like this:
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and here is my second spot – this time a MaccyD’s coke:
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magician’s lorry
this is like one of those magician tricks where they show you an empty box from the side then proceed to throw a cloth over the top then extract a live rabbit.
i suspect that modern haulage companies are concerned about transporting valuable cargo in their standard lorries and so have decided to use these magical ones instead.
