lost children delivery point
this sign has a spiritual dimension.
swanage beach
swanage beach in march is cold but good fun (if you are a kid)
and here is jane looking jolly:
star turn
esther has come up with a brilliant plan. she’s going to wear a star on her hand for 24 hours. where does she get such great ideas from ? it’s a performance art thing i recon.
by the way, the lent activity is still going well.
uneven is odd
roads themselves don’t go anywhere. perhaps it’s referring to the slow movement of tectonic plates. that would account for the unevenness (oddness) of the road surface.
they shouldn’t let geologists make street signs.
RAC IQ
i went to the Royal Automobile Club in Pall Mall for a meeting this afternoon.
The Royal Automobile Club club is one of those historic gentlemen’s club things which were very popular with the upper classes in years gone by. The people who were running the presentation i was attending had hired a room on the 1st floor.
I arrived at the same time as about 10 of my colleagues. As i walked in a very nice waiter/bouncer chap approached me and in front of everyone asked if i had a jacket. i replied i didn’t (preferring shirt/tie/suit trousers with jumper rather than jacket). he then said “sorry, you have to wear a jacket to get in”.
ooops. luckily he had one in his jumble sale box which i borrowed. i felt like the kid at school who forgot his sports kit. he said i could take it off as soon as i got to the room. i got a few remarks about the jacket, which matched one of the other attendees normal jacket !
here is me wearing the borrowed jacket in the men’s toilets and below it and the communal comb and hair brushes provided for club members to brush their receeding hairlines (i decided not to try them out):
why did i call this item RAC IQ ? because i wasn’t smart enough.
lost station
the lost underground station at The Strand.
tree trap #2
this time an urban tree trap.
strings down holes
as regular readers will know, london was once a pine forest on a mountain.
however, did you also know that the new London actually floats on the thames ? here are some of the tethering ropes which go down through the ground and pop out in to the thames where they are anchored.
it’s quite common to see these ropes protruding from the street as they wear themselves lose by the bobbing movements.
a similar blog
here’s an interesting thing. it’s a blog which is a bit like mine, set in the same part of london with the same obsession for signs.
marvellous.
russell davies
a better class of vagrant
i occasionally see beer cans and empty boxes in doorways. these are the tell-tale signs of ‘life’ left by street people.
i used to help with a couple of homeless projects a while back and the amazing thing was the type of people who ended up homeless. they came from all social classes and backgrounds. it could happen to anyone.
here we see the dining remains of an obviously higher class of street liver. two bottles of red, some breadsticks and humous dip, an apple, some foliage (for decoration) and a pile of takeaway menus. they’ve never had it so good.
little heart
it’s rare to find love on the street of london. but here it is. for all to see.
no publicity
here is a post-it stuck on a door. it says ‘no publicity. thank you very much’. i suspect the house belongs to some failed celebrity who is sarcastically thanking the paparatzi for the lack of publicity he has received.
i should have knocked on the door and asked. but i didn’t.
the roads have eyes
random paint splatter on road looks like eye. blogger risks life to obtain photo.
movable exit
here is a little plastic exit sign which was blowing down the street. it had obviously taken its own advice.
ordain-o-matic
a friend sent me a spam which linked to this site. it’s a lovely idea. the ministry in a box concept is nice too.
disclaimer: This site has nothing to do with me and i would highly recommend you don’t get ordained. any distater or general badness resulting from your ordination via this route is not my fault. ok ?
Be Ordained Now
more holiday stories
there’s still a load of holiday stories to tell (we’ve only got up to last monday night so far). i’ll post them later in the week so as not to flood you all with new stuff today !
but for now, here is a falling apart rusty sign from falling apart rusty weymouth. we don’t know what award they won …
