mushrooms
bizarre mushroom circle in Hyde Park. why do they grown like this ?
clock watching
thieves are everywhere. so it’s good news there’s a security camera in close proximity to old big ben
entertainment
another street entertainer playing on tourists love of all thing british.
human statues
it’s very popular to stand in tourist areas painted silver and pretend to be a statue. as a way of making money it seems quite easy. though the actual money involved seems quite small and it might get a bit boring.
here are parts of two such people on the south bank yesterday evening
carter’s steam fair
they were setting up Carter’s Steam Fair as i walked home last night. here are a few pictures.
lorry:
ice-cream view with various landmarks behind:
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strong man:
swings:
horse man:
No 1 For Fun:
concrete
whoever thought this was a good idea.
advertising bollards
no old people for the top 40 chart
wardrobe
it’s a giant wardrobe for the london philharmonic orchestra
more bollard photos
i’ve been a bit tardy keeping up with my email correspondence of late, so belatedly here’s a bollard photo from Annette of Boston. She’s got a page full of bollards with some great pictures.
i particularly liked this one of bollard hero worship (“when i’m bigger i want to smoke”). She’s also got some great ones of the Bollard Guantanamo Bay down the bottom.
i should also mention groc who sent this picture of bollards considering whether to take a dip in the sea at Brighton (i think groc was in the sea taking this photo):
and finally, another regularly reader has been inspired to start their own blog. This one is in halifax (in the north of England where the countryside is beautiful, but it rains even more than london) by Gary.
(as always, i’m not responsible for stuff on other people’s sites so venture at your own peril !)
other people’s lives
here’s someone to do list. mostly shopping for water, salad, birthday card, rings for dave and janessa (jewellry always popular), toothpaste and the Internet. and exchange rates for America.
wedding gift
this looks like a gift from elaine and roger from their wedding. how generous to give your guests a piece of ribbon.
but what of that word ‘ebration’ on the label. is that ‘inebriation’ (spelt slightly wrong, but that never stops me ?
equality in stockholm
there seems to have been some rather clever editing done on a number of Stockholm’s street crossing signs. here is one such example:
