what i ate and drank today
following on from last’s year’s experiment, here is today’s consumption. much liquid, but little actual food until right at the end of the day.
banana, fruit juice and hot water for breakfast, blueberry muffin for lunch, crisps at 6pm-ish then a cheese fondle and banoffee pie.
i must remember to eat more food in a day. but notice the lack of chocolate (which is nowadays replaced with beer)
pigeons
it struct me this morning that pigeons survive so well in london becaus they are camouflaged against the grey-ness of the sky, river and buildings.
doesn’t stop them being virmin though !
a proper building site
just look at this scene. it’s a proper building site.
it’s got everything you could wish for – men in flourescent jackets, hard hats, ladders, things high up on scaffolding, holes, dirt, shovels, tractors, wheelbarrows.
brilliant.
poppy petals
the poppy petals were still around this morning. apparently there was one dropped for every person who died in recent wars (including 1st and 2nd).
some cleaners were busy sweeping the memories up, but there were still lots left.
trolley
poor thing
rememberance day
i was at a meeting last night which finished just before 6pm so we could go out and watch a couple of old planes fly over and drop pettles on london. so we did.
unfortunately it was dark and although i saw the fly by i didn’t get a decent photo so won’t show you (this never normally stops me!).
lots of the bridges were lit up in red and the whole town was full of people.
projections on a building and dropped petals:
and i finally found out what these lights were for:
the search lights remained searching way after the planes had gone:
(bottom left bigable by the method of clicking)
extendable whatsits
look at this yellow cherry picker. i just love the way it extends out of itself. a bit like those bird things
BT tower from the ground
amazingly there’s a little street which you can walk down which takes you right under the BT Tower.
the street is full of survellance cameras of course, but should also be full of photographers !
(click photos for big versions)
reflected in the building next to it:
the tower is so completely skinny (especially that base bit) and seems even more so when viewed from this angle. it’s sort of locked in to the ground underneath apparently, but i’m glad i didn’t take this photo before i went up !
Up BT tower on a sunny day
i went up BT tower again this lunchtime and the weather was fantastic. unfortunately the sun haze meant i didn’t get any decent shots of westminster this time, but i’m quite pleased with these ones.
click all the photos for big versions – the first one is full size so is 1MB (but you can study it close up) !
compare this last photo to this i took just over a month ago!
sky high catering:
if you know your geography and the height of the tower you can probably triangulate and work out what time i took this photo (or just check the EXIF data if you are nerd):
not quite beach volleyball
here are some workmen playing keepy-uppy over their security tape.
pull up nannies
here is a shopping list.
nrawn
notatoes (no potatoes)
catrot (cream to stop your cat smelling)
pull-up nannies (they are so tired they need a hand to get off the sofa)
napies (cross between a nappy and a pie – nothing is wasted here)
mysterious thing in our holiday cottage
now here’s a strange thing. jane found it in a cupboard in our holiday house on the isle of wight. it says:
STARTER PACK for ‘R’s sheep
do not insert at once – familiarisation first !
we didn’t dare open it up.
