remember the incorrect sign. well, the cafe has obviously employed a reading-expert who has now put jacket potatoes in the space marked jacket potatoes.
the same shop also has a nice picture menu. i like picture menus. you can see what you’ll be getting. saves visualising.
i especially like how they’ve crossed one of the plates out. or perhaps they serve it with lines on.
i like obsessives. here is a particularly good one.
it’s a study of road signs
we are meant to report anything suspicious to the authorities in these hyper-sensitive times. but where do we draw the line ?
this morning, whilst walking to work, my path was blocked by this plastic stone plinth. it wasn’t there on friday.
it could be packed full of manure (as favoured by the modern day incendiarist i believe). but i strongly suspect it isn’t.
another paddington train station sign with a page number. page 30 this time.
it’s interesting to note there is a glove thief about in paddington station. it’s not me. i only take photos of gloves.
there’s always the problem of where to leave you straw hat. it’s not always easy.
esther got up to preach her sermon only to discover she was slightly too short.
it was a wet, cold and miserable day in henley (weather wise), but we were rewarded at the end of the day with an amazing rainbow.
my camera hasn’t got enough of a wide angle to get the full crescent and hasn’t enough zoom to get the full detail. ho hum.
here’s a close-up
i’m mentioned in passing in the Observer newspaper today:
how exciting ! (thanks to dan for finding this)
a long time ago we had two cats. one of them, billy, used to love drinking tea from a mug. here he is in action. file 32KB in RealMovie format
more history from my old computer – ancient webcam pictures from when i had hair and didn’t wear glasses all the time.
here is a photo of my stylophone. the ‘styl’ was a play on words referring to the electronic ‘stylus’ pen you use to play the instrument. today it could stand for ‘style’ of course.
My instrument was played and signed by Rolf Harris himself. Click on the pictures for a proper look.
i don’t generally do sound. but here is a sound i found down the back of the cooker (on my old computer):
Ooooooh.wav (85KB)
if you are interested, i’ve just updated my found photo website to include the latest find and an old thing which i forgot to put up last year !
www.davescollections.com
here is an old dog which i found whilst searching through some old photos. it was taken in france last year. this dog would be a good friend for these two
jane (my wife) (20 questions)
sometimes face painting is deliberate. sometimes it’s not.
esther went yellow and kezia was a rabbit until she started eating a chocolate covered cake
