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man’s continued evolution – the shopping trolley

i love trollies, especially when they are far from home. i hadn’t realised there were just so many different types available.
here is a trolley menu for your parusal.
someone should invent trolley top-trumps. It could have categories such as cubic capacity, seating capacity, steerability, height and wheelchair attachability.

herbie in henley

i suspect this is an imposter. i spent ages talking to it but it wouldn’t even wink its lights.

watching the lock


police cheque

here is a police lady parked up in the bus lane getting some money out of the bank.
which reminds me of my very first joke i ever made up:

why do they call policemen ‘coppers’ ?
because the change is good as arrest


pre-prepared passport photos

what a great time saving idea – this photo shop has a selection of pre-prepared photos in its window to save you having to wait !

see davescollections for more lost/found photos

stop messing about


push the right stone to open the door


mattress

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cosmic on the stones


(no digital trickery other than negativity)

a shoe on the bonnet

remember the car with the shoe ? i said it was no place for a shoe, but commenter jokey disagreed.
i therefore give you this as further evidence. the shoe has now slipped down on to the bonnet.

cars just don’t get it. they have wheels, not feet. it’s no wonder things go wrong when they attempt tricks with shoes. it’s just showing off. plain and simple.

silver fridge freezer

here’s a chrome fridge freezer …

looking enviously at a BT phone box

in the olden days …

if only terrorists would label their explosives as well as these people have. it would help everyone, especially the police.

frog or dinosaur ?

the dressed up animal advertising is back outside the glasses shop on tottenham court road.
in the name of research i approach the animal (frog or dinosaur?) to ask if it was always the same person inside the array of animals we’ve seen in recent months.
a foreign voice said “speak slowerlier pleece”
i repeated myself slowerlier to pleece him.
he paused then said “sorry, i do not undertant”.
i wonder if he understood what the job entailed when he took it ?

gloves



toy roadkill


hair in keswick

here is a bit of a passport photo, ideal for one of my other websites: www.davescollections.com (which i’ve recently updated by the way).

unfortunately all we got was the hair.

off to the vicar factory

here is the last picture of lee on his last day at our church before he goes off to vicar factory.
here he is pulling his best vicar face

the stats of funkypancake

things are quite mad in funkypancake world at the moment.
in addition to this, the webstats show the site had nearly 43,000 unique visitors last month and around 2 million hits, with people coming from all around the world (August is shown as a part month so it’s lower)

and by the end this week i’ll have walked 3,500 miles since i started measuring on the 2nd February 2004.

Funkypancake – A Great British Blog

Funkypancake along with 5 other blogs have been nominated as ‘Great British Blogs’ by the British Council in Japan !

I’m a regular reader of Annie Mole’s (pictured here) from Going Underground but i didn’t recognise any of the others listed. A quick whizz round them all revealed Hippy Shopper to be the ‘website i’m most likely to keep an eye on’ from the rest of the list.
here’s the front cover for the magazine which is also available online here (in english)

also – i’m being interviewed on BBC Radio Berkshire on Thursday. Listen in from 2.30pm uk time here. This follows the celebrity wedding when i met soose’s boss phil kennedy.


and finally, i found out today one of my photos is going to be printed in the Reading and Leeds Festival programme
i think it’s probably this one – see more from within the crowd at Reading 2004 here

jolly times in funkypancake land. so thanks all you readers for the massive encouragement you give by leaving comments, sending emails and generally showing up in the webstats !

pie