this week’s “guess what” mystery was of course superman
he seems to have taken batman’s place outside city hall
which was ideal for taking pictures of superheroes punching big ben
and here’s a peek behind the magic of the lens viewers, just so you can see how the magic of funkypancake is created.
dive dive dive
these chaps looked like they were asleep at the starting block of the henley regatta.
but it was all a sham as they were actually the boat park
as can be seen here
eventually this chap lowered his flag and off they went
also on the boat were some other people doing jobs in a mobile office type way
i took kezia to a concert yesterday to mark the end of the year. the mayor was there to give out the certificates (although he outsourced that to his wife)
of course the parent paparazzi were out in force as usual
and the mayor himself was very jolly
kezia and i went off to pick our own strawberries yesterday as part of her summer school project.
i just loved all these signs with foods that grow around, under, on or near dirt.
i’ve never seen a currant tree, so that would be a good destination sometime. actually, i think it might be where they keep the currant families like red, black and yellow/green striped.
and what’s a calabrese ? i thought that was carpet cleaner
still we got a good fist full. kezia ate a large proportion of them in the car on the way home.
i’ve no idea if it’s cheaper or more expensive to buy via pick your own. on one hand you are saving them the labour, but on the other it’s an hour’s fun so you might have to pay for the privilege.
this price chart was quite interesting though. quite a few random letters and words left over.
i went to henley regatta yesterday as i had the day off work. i was only there for a couple of hours as i had to collect kezia from school, but i had a great time wandering about people watching.
there was lots of people following signs to the letter, like these people refusing to put up their gazebos.
here are a couple of boaters. i went to a couple of charity shops in henley to buy a boater for camouflage but the one they had was slightly too small. probably for the best.
there were some great signs put up for the event.
this shot is looking directly up towards the finishing line (with the boats coming towards us).
look at the size of the arrow on this sign ! i’ve got loads more people shots which i’ll publish sometime soonly.
i didn’t go in to any of the enclosures so ended up spending hardly any money (other than my train ticket i bought a cheese burger and a beer. and i bought two plastic measuring jugs from Woolworths in the town on the way back to the station for 39 pence each because they were such a bargain).
here are some boatists. the lot at the bottom are quite amusing
the exile guessed the gusset, can anyone guess the location (correct answers please shorely & rascle !)
and just to help you out, here’s a ‘making of’ shot of yesterday’s picture
in a nice coincidence type of way i took a photo of this urinal without realising the significance of the advert in the background
i’ve not updated my davescollections website for a long time because the software behind it is so broken that if i attempted to update it it’d probably all fall apart !
i spotted this work pass on a wall. it was face down, although it did have a nice smiley face drawn on the back. i ended up taking it to the local tube station which turned out to be unmanned. so i pushed it down the money return space in the ticket booth, giving it a good flick so it landed on the counter. unfortunately i nearly got my hand trapped due to my watch getting caught under the underhang.
i’m free now. which is more than miss whoever, who is probably still locked outside her office.
can you guess what this is and where you’d find it ? another clue tomorrow (or a confirmation of the answer if someone guesses it before then)
this is a great sign on a shop just round the corner from Tony Blair’s house in london. i wonder if he has coffee emergencies these days ?
if he does he can be sure that “they’ll serve him”. in quotes.
those quotes probably mean they can give you a price before you place an order. probably.
inflation hits us all. this building was number 57 just a few weeks ago, and now look at it.
