portable toilets
300 kids and 3 toilets. thats a high kids to toilet ratio.
portable toilets like this are never pleasant.
red sky
red sky in the morning, shepherds warning. it’s 5.30am and the sky is red. how relevant is a shepherds wisdom in modern urban england ? we shall find out in due course I imagine. I shall update this entry throughout the day.
update: bad things which happened throughout the day
1) woke up with excruciating ear ache at 3am and didn’t get back to sleep
2) found my computer has locked me out of most of my accounts so it’s tricky to work from home (though I have found a sneaky non-ideal way)
However, we also know that every cloud has a silver lining, so here are some good things:
1) cotton buds, codeine, oral and aural antibiotics all combine to numb the pain (and give me a slighlty euphoric feeling
2) my work email account has sprung back in to life and i can access my emails again (hoorah).
where is that road
amaze your friends with road knowledge.
UK Roads: Roads by 10
and here’s one on pathetic motorways
and here is a general one (home of the A roads section above)
HBC
when not being ill i have been in a marquee playing my guitar.
It’s the church holiday club this week which happens in a school field. work has kindly allowed me to work flexibly around my bass playing duties, which may mean I start my working day at 5am and finish at 9pm (with a break in the middle).
no blog entries
been no blog entries this weekend as I have an ear infection and am in a massive amount of pain. will attempt to catch up tonight :-/
BBQ
here is elton and kezia. elton is a hairdresser in Sheffield and is one of the funniest people I know. he’s also one of the kindest. the two are not incompatible.
we had a barbeque for anyone involved in music at our church and Elton did a fine job barbequing in the rain. we couldn’t allow him in the house as he doesn’t go to our church. this picture was taken just before we threw him out in to the rain.
cat balancing
esther and elton balance cats on their heads
ball of the foot
this was spotaneous art which took ages to set up. the little ball kept slipping out of esther’s toes when she raised her foot above the globe. i’m sure you agree that the final picture was worth the effort.
the new regulatory regime
unnoticed by most people, the communications act became law today. this marks the beginning of a new era for telecommunication (and tv) regulation.
oftel marked the occasion by sending me a pile of paper in 12 different envelopes.
total height of the combined contents is 2.2cm.
5
here is the number 5 in the street. it’s on a flip pad type arrangement with, i suspect, the other numbers accessible by flipping over pages. perhaps it belongs to a bygone quizmaster who has now gone digital
I AM FREE
some nice graffiti here. done in whiteboard marker so it can be rubbed off easily (as has partically happened here).
the artist has written “I am free” and then obviously run away to prove it. free from what you ask. Free to do what he wants, without being hassled by the man. obviously.
happy families
here we are with our friends the gooddys and the newells at dinton pastures.
DONT FEED THE BIRDS HERE – MESS
not an instruction, more of an alternative.
stiebel eltron
this was written on a handdrier in Dinton Pastures. A fantastic name.
Here is a link to the modern Stiebel Eltron. nice trousers lady.
the war against flies
the long awaited back lash has started against the stupid black flies which have recently entered our house. I counted 7 flies in our house (spread over various rooms)
we are approaching the eradication on two fronts – chemical and physical.
Here is Kezia enjoying the new fly swat.
Current fly count is 4 (and falling). they are dropping like flies it seems
zebra crossings
the highway code suggests you should slow down and stop if pedestrians are using a zebra crossing. the highway code makes no comment about reversing backwards over zebra crossings and hitting people that way. a white van took full advantage of this fact earlier today and nearly sent me flying across Charlotte Street.
Had I been tieing my shoelaces or taking a quick nap, i would surely have been one less dimensional by now.
Warwick Castle
we went to warwick castle today – was most excellent.
view from a window
gone pillaging
sign in a shop
barrel of coke
of course they used to make coca-cola in wooden barrels in the medieval days. i suspect a rather more sinister marketing ploy
