frying pan alley
i’ve walked within a few metres of this little alley hundreds of times, but only spotted it for the first time today.
what a great name.
i’ve walked within a few metres of this little alley hundreds of times, but only spotted it for the first time today.
what a great name.
why is this bollard climbing out of this window ?
have you ever seen such a battered sign ?
everything about this picture says no. the two no-entry signs. the no entry barrier and the yellow and black no entry tape attached to the barrier.
‘no no no’ they say. but i still walked on by.
look at this. it’s a massive tap on a stick with a giant on off turny handle thing.
it’s nowhere near the giant tap i saw earlier this week (which has now gone).
so what IS going on ?
it’s deadline galore at work at the moment. but things might calm down after next week (i hope)
meanwhle i’ve just finished a 13 hour working day. i started at 4.15am and have just decided to stop. unfortunately i’m working from home so no-one realy knows that.
so i thought i’d tell you instead.
thanks for listening
a hyper-realistic threatening dog sign. the most realistic yet.
look at this pink car. note the learner sign on the back. i think some parent is particularly worried about their child learning to drive and decided to spray the car pink to give it more visibility.
you can hear the teenager son/daughter’s reaction when they first saw it “ugh. MUM ! what HAVE you done. I’m NEVER driving that car”.
or some such.
there’s something about british hotels. especially in london. this one looks particularly run down.
it might be fine inside but outside it look very unappealing. what a strange country this is !
i thnk there are a varierty of different falling down signs so i’m starting a seperate category
i’ve just walked down to our local postbox and back with no shoes or socks on as an experiment. it took about 15 minutes.
it went quite well. I’ve walked 1200 kilometres since i got my pedometer. 99.999% of that has been wearing my Doc Martens. (just a small amount was wearing my ‘christmas shoes’). It was time for my feet to find out what my boots have been experiencing
here are my learnings:
* teeny stones and bits of grit hurt more than big stones and may join you on your journey like limpits by attaching themselves to your feet.
* different bits of the pavement feel very different. the scars from cable TV network layings are nice and smooth compared to the normal pavement.
* the road is very rough. don’t go there. stick to the pavements.
* i had a real fear of scraping my toes on the floor so i walked in a very strange way.
* carpet is an ABSOLUTE luxury to return to.
marking is finally finished. jane is back in circulation again. hoorah indeed.
remember that Pete was meant to be flying round scotland this week ? well, he had a bike accident and in stead is at home perfecting a very strange tan. he also seems to be attached to a sun dial.
so no flying for pete (and no work for 5 weeks either)
poor old pete. get well soon !
some minstrels in a big concrete circle. it’s just like ezekiel
yesterday i spotted at least 6 dangly window cleaners on big buildings. it was obviously dangly window cleaner day.
here is the ground indicator for the skyward activity
it’s always disturbing to find hair in the street. this was no exception.
here is the church we go to (just in case you wondered what it looked like).
update: here’s a history of Arborfield Church from our friend lynda. she thinks there might be some inaccuracies in there but isn’t sure where.
my favourite is the vague names of the early vicars !
a family milestone. i came home this evening to witness esther had learnt to skip. she did 10 in a row and was very pleased.
travelling by public transport is always good for catching bits of people’s conversations.
the other day i overheard someone say “i’ve just had a conceptual epiphany. there are too many intervening variables”.
i thought i’d never remember that so i wrote it down.
here is a snippet of someone’s conversation in letter form. there’s enough here to spark interest.