whistle
here’s a good safety idea. it’s a whistle left in the street. if anyone has any problems they can pick it up and blow it and the local constabulary will come and help them
xmas card
last year i found a couple of christmas cards in the street and compiled my own lost christmas on a shelf in my office. i thought i was off to a terrifc start when i saw this envelope just off Harley Street. It’s addressed to a Doctor and says “by hand”. It wasn’t actually opened and was lying in the road.
i decided i shouldn’t just take it so left it on the nearest doorstep (not bread) and hoped that it would find its way to its intended recipient. i should have changed the ‘by hand’ to ‘by hands’
glove
a white glove this morning – taken without flash hence the shadeyness
potato
i haven’t been home much this week because of work stuff in the evenings and various meetings for other stuff. i got home around 9pm last night and jane greeted me with a potato which had been in the oven for 2 days. it was tuesday’s tea i think. ooops.
advent day 4
day four of the advent calendar picture challenge – it’s a bird:
here are the entries:
dali winged person (part of a statue of a floppy clock outside the london eye)
searching for a bird picture i also went to trafalgar square which was once famous for its pigeons. however there were no pigeons there when i got there for three reasons:
1) it’s now illegal to feed them
2) it was dark and pigeons go to bed early in winter
3) there was loads of activity because they were lighting the official christmas tree and they probably would have been scared away
so here is an arty shot of a don’t feed the pigeon sign and the bloke on the stick. interesting the sign looks like a tomb stone, which i suppose it was in a way for the pigeons. perhaps john shuttleworth would be interested, writer of the famous song “pigeons in flight”
private rod
this is a mysterious sign at Embankment Tube station (for those who want to pay homage to this sign, it’s near the steps which lead down to the Bakerloo Line if you arrive on the Circle/District Line travelling in an eastward direction).
ann widdecomble
here is ann widdecombe on whitehall.
award winning photography
these blokes are from Brazil and i bumped in to them twice on my walk down the South Bank. each time they asked me to take their photo with a famous landmark in the background. they must have heard i was an award winning photographer.
london at night
our old friend big ben
london eye (from an angle)
some people can’t finish their
there are two sorts of sign writers – those who can finish their sentences and those who
no ft, no comment (thanks grahame !)
here are some more:
this last one is quite interesting and may reveal the sad truth behind this inadequate sign writing.
perhaps the sign writer wrote “look right” but then realised he’d stuffed up the word “right”. So he over did the word “right” which meant he didn’t have enough paint to do all the letters in the other sentences.
instead he ended up creating a sign which nearly says “look bright” which he obviously doesn’t. he “ooks stupid”.
my apologies yet again to purveyors of the english language. i know i’ve used “”s when i should have used ”s around my words.
blue smarties
there were no blue ones. so we requested them. then they were mostly blue. so we ate them and gave one to a man in a suit. modern life is far from rubbish
here is a comprehensive website on the blue smartie phenomenon
photographic hat trick
i found THREE seperate photos yesterday. all of them passport ones (my favourites). They were all in different bits of London and all totally random finds. someone was trying to tell me something … but what ?
mobile office
here is a nice idea. if you run out of office space or meeting rooms, simply order this van and off you go. you can even use it to avoid transport between meetings. for example if you have a meeting in the city at 1pm and a meeting in westminster at 4pm you could work in the mobile office between 2 and 4 and get them to drive across town during that period so you don’t waste any travelling time.
fit it wifi and off you go.
update: looks like British Telecom have just stolen the concept …
tent
here is a random tent set up in the street. no reason as far as i could tell.
they probably set it up in the street as they weren’t allowed to erect it in a royal park:
band practice
as we get closer to christmas, life gets busier. it was band practice last night. the electric guitar, piano and me (bass) are out of shot (but not out of hearing range)
ninja top trumps
top trumps. marvellous.
do they know it’s christmas
they’ve got a neat idea in london this year to project pictures on to buildings. even the queen’s allowed buckingham palace to be projected on.
here is the cover of Do They Know It’s Christmas on Wellington Arch (i think that’s what it’s called). It looked very nice.
parky
there are a variety of things you aren’t allowed to do in London’s royal parks. including your washing it appears. people shouldn’t be airing their dirty laundry in public in my opinion.
