i don’t usually go through people’s bins, but this bin bag and dustbin were already open. it was outside some posh person’s house. they’ve obviously never heard of charity shops.
however, things like this could help me if i ever decide to do my street clothes challenge.
here is a good sign. it uses the word prive instead of private to no doubt appear “down with the kids”.
but don’t even think about setting up a bike park or it’ll be removed straight away. i think skateboarding parks would probably be ok, but i’m not entirely sure.
other point to note is that it’s been nailed to the wall with cable clip things instead of nails which is a nice touch.
sometimes the sign itself says more than the sign itself.
jane and i have been married 8 years today. and 8 jolly years it’s been too.
this year i’ve been very uncreative, but last year i made this lovely photo (which i framed):
and this little card:
i gave a talk this afternoon as part of a regulatory conference at the Royal Institute of Great Briitian. It’s an amazing place bursting full of historical science.
the lecture hall we were in was where faraday first demonstrated electricity (around the mid 1800s). it’s also where they do those christmas lectures you see on TV at … er … christmas.
Faraday’s table (the lecturing desk) has little gas pipes either side of the main desk for bunsen burners (which i didn’t use).
and i got to stand and wave my arms around and point at photos i’d taken of street cleaning vehicle to explain the progress of Broadband Internet access in the UK. how bizarre/fantastic is that !
this door is closed. but why you ask. read the sign.
it’s been temporarily shut since 1st september 1995
this dinner was empty except for an electric drill and a motorcycle helmet
loose limbs in a shop window
how do you make a sausage role ?
take a sausage and wrap it in pastry
in the world of work it’s possible to collect a large number of complimentary pens. occasionally you’ll go to a meeting and they’ll also provide some paper. even less occasionally you’ll be furnished with gratuitous confectionary.
i went to a meeting earlier today, and in addition to free wi-fi access the venue provided little mint sweets which looked just like those Pez sweets which were very popular when i was a little girl.
i only wished i had a funny plastic dispenser thing. perhaps next year they’ll provide the dispensers as well. hopefully in the shape of the people who were running the meeting.
here is brother edd in my office. he popped in for an early morning cuppa.
but the machine didn’t vend tea and he didn’t want to dunk a tea bag (he has standards) so the tea remained unmade and he sat there quietly.
here is another psychedelic slick in the same place as i saw the other one. This one looks particularly tie-dye.
fridge freezer and a sofa.
the fridge freezer is looking rather depressed and may be considering throwing itself off over the railings. i tried talking to it but it wouldn’t answer.
the cushion had been moved on the chair so i suspect someone had been looking for lost money and other items down the back of the sofa. i certainly couldn’t find anything when i had a look
from a link on goingunderground: Animals on the Underground
this morning i saw a bucket. it belonged to a man who was cleaning a street light with a mop on a long stick (like this one and this one).
His bucket contained a liquid which was so black it was almost a mirror. it was very peculiar and was definately haunted.
and just now i went past a bucket next to a drain cleaner van and it contained this mysterious orange substance. again, the colour was unlike any other i’d seen before (in an orangey/goldy glowey kind of way). it reminded me of the wall on the back of the spaceship on blake’s 7 (if my remembory serves me well)
what IS going on ?
remembory is a word i forgot i knew. it’s a thing you once knew and know you knew, but can’t quite extract it from its storage.
it’s on the tip of your mind’s tongue (which is located near your mind’s eye).
when the thought is locked in the place between your memory and it being remembered, for a short while (sometimes longer) it’s a remembory (the thing) which is trapped in your remembory (the place).
a picture showing clearly the location of my remembory:
there’s a recording studio for one of the major record labels near my office. often large lorries full of orchestral instruments get loaded and unloaded outside their doors.
just now there was a tesco’s lorry parked up and it got me thinking, what if no-one noticed it was the wrong lorry. the musicians would be playing empty joghurt pots and shaking bags of pasta shapes along to the beat.
there’s plenty of room for a whole concept album. i’m also sure there is a host a supermarket/music puns you could insert here.
more generally, wouldn’t it be excellent if all the lorries that travelled the country all got mixed up and people had to work through the consequences.
if only i were a lorry driver. i’d have some real fun.
the modern office is a delicate equilibrium. things are created and destroyed following a careful and seemingly endless pattern.
letters are written on word processors, printed out, put in envelopes, posted, opened, read and destroyed, and/or filed, but whatever, mostly eventually land filled.
each piece of equipment in the office has its nemesis. for the printer, it’s legion: the dustbin, the shredder, the recycling bag etc.
for the stapler it’s the staple remover (seen here). it could be argued the remover is only needed when mistakes are made.
but i say removing staples is just part of the process.
i love my stapler. it’s grip is great. and you can store it vertically on its nose.
jane and i went to the flicks last night to see big fish. i broke my chocolate drought and ate massives of chocolate and a bucket of pepsi.
the film was good. dodgy ewan mcgregor accent at some points (must have been bad for an englishman to spot a scottish american accent). otherwise most excellent and worth a trip.
it contained some shoe throwing which i like to see:
