what the future looked like in the past
retro futurists in a bookstall at a village fair.
note the random disconnected space boot on the floor and the book on top called ‘they died too young’.
very small sign
teeny weeny snail on my finger tip (must have been a sign)
two gloves
2 gloves
closeup here:
and here:
how the cool people travel
the spacehopper is enjoying a renaisance rather like scooting did a few years back. businessmen are taking advantage of the long dry british summer to commute to work on spacehoppers, sometimes travelling miles just to get to work.
what we see here is a lady’s sports spacehopper. she’s parked it up (rather badly i notice) and left her sunnies on the roof.
blue hair
quiz of the day – male or female. vote now.
disposable flash cameras
stranded camera man
rivals
it’s the rival brands on opposite walls
merlin’s speed bump sign
merlin sent me this sign of saying watch out for speed bumps. positioning is everything with signs !
olivia’s dedication
yesterday was olivia’s dedication.
As i described in the comments here, a dedication is a bit like a baptism – it’s a chance to say thank you to God for the child and to welcome them in to the wider church family.
Prayer parents are like god-parents and it’s their duty to pray for the child and generally support them as they grow up.
when they are old enough they can then make their own decision about the Christian faith, which they believe is true.
richard and julia (below), and jane and i are olivia’s prayer parents.
The prayer we said included this phrase “May we be patient and understanding, ready to guide and to forgive, so that through our love she may come to know your love, through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
(can you spot esther and kezia in the picture above ?)
men work up ladders to release people trapped in a giant TV screen
and all this because people weren’t allowed to crowd surf.
it makes no sense.
revised song title
i went with others’ advice on my previous attempt and re-approached the song title thing. so, here’s my new song title picture. i think i cropped a bit too tight on the right though. oh well.
do you know what it is yet ?
me at the reading festival
here i am with my festival hat shortly before i left. i only really saw Dinosaur Juniorand the Charlatans today before i ran out of energy and went home ! We’ve got other things planned for today so that’s probably it for me and Reading 2005.
but you can watch some of the bands here for the next 30 days.
weapons on mass dispersion
these things fired tiny bits of paper high in the air. good plan.
mixed messages
swallowfield show signage awaiting deployment. i’m looking forward to seeing where the ‘fishing in the field’ signs goes.
brother edd
here is brother edd. i saw him at the Reading Festival today. i went and sat down near the stage and at the end of the band looked round me and there he was sitting but a few metres away. neither of us had spotted each other, and neither had we agreed to meet in that location.
how very strange.
here he is holding one of my funkypancake ‘business cards’ which i give to people who ask why i’m taking pictures of boring things.
specialised bins
here are two slightly seperate strange things in the same bin complex.
see how specialised these bins have become. this bin is only for Beans on Toast. which makes me think that the Beans on Toast people haven’t had a good day
and then this chap appears to be in a bin, but he wasn’t.
