one long leg
this bloke has one leg longer than the other. poor chap.
quite expensive luxury fruit juice
£7 / 100ml is quite a lot for a drink. That’s £70/litre. There was obviously some mistake on the pricing label and i wanted to make sure it wasn’t the price / bottle figure which was incorrect.
so i pointed out to a shelf stacker in Tescos that i wasn’t prepared to pay £17.50 for a 250ml bottle of juice and he got very confused.
so i pointed at the sign a few times and explained my maths until he eventually walked off.
in the end it only cost me £1.75 so i needn’t have worried anyway. And if it makes my cold go away then it was money well spent.
but it probably won’t so probably wasn’t.
door bells
look at all these door bell buttons. brilliantly anonymous.
autumnal equinox
it’s now darker than it is light in the UK which is a shame. it’s dark when i leave the house and nearly dark when i get home. so that means i need to use flash for my photos which don’t look as good as when lit by the sun.
and so seasonally adjusted misery has kicked in and i’ve got my first sore throat and head cold. the weather’s too hot for a coat but too cold not to wear one.
enough of this uncharacteristic whingeing !
the leaves on the floor are starting to look nice.
advertise here
street advertising could be the future. especially if you were trying to market a product to street cleaners.
here is the little sign. i would have got a better picture only a man with a dog appeared at the doorway next to wear i was standing and i think he thought i looked a bit suspicious !
mouse
i’ve seen two mouses in the last few days. both on pavements and both very tricky to get nice photos of. i didn’t show you the other mouse as it was quite frankly dead. and i wasn’t sure if you’d like that.
so here is a living mouse sitting nicely outside paddington station.
esther’s first homework
esther is now in year 1 at school and now gets homework. here she is with her first set of spellings.
it’s a list of words beginning with ‘sh’ and includes shop, ship, shed, shampoo, she, and bizzarely, he and we !
her writing and spelling are alreayy better than myn.
behind the toilet
ever wondered what’s in the other half of those horrible street toilet things ? well, here’s the answer. there’s a giant circular brush and lots of pipes and gubbins.
no loitering
if they’d been a no loitering sign this picture would have been even better.
i would have called it something like “stand waiting in the street”.
blue arrow
there’s something very amateur about this use of blue and the poor edge-work of the blue colouring-in. you learn to appreciate decent colouring-in when you have little kids about the house.
a wheelie bin convention
look at all these wheelie bins gathered in this street. i’m sure they’re up to no good. especially that one with the yellow x on him.
but maybe i’ve misread them. perhaps they are charity do-gooders arranging a plan to tidy the neighbourhood.
i really must learn to look at things more open-mindedly.
yesterday’s food
this is what i had for lunch yesterday:
in the evening we went out with our friends Andy and Mary-Anne. We left all our various children at home which was good. we didn’t even talk about them (too much).
for me, the culinary highlight was the ice-cream which contained a massive piece of chocolate fudge cake:
Royal Opera House lorry
i can scarce believe the amount of lorries i see which are transporting classical intruments. here is a lorry which belongs to the royal opera house.
trollies
there’s been a real run on trollies just recently which i for one have found simply thrilling. i hope you have too.
can you imagine my surprise when i came out of my office door and spotted all these trolley going by ? luckily my camera start up time is now quick enough to allow me to capture the moment before it was gone forever.
so here it is. lots of people and their little trollies walking by Pollock’s Toy Museum
