i’m sure these signs never used to give the reason. or perhaps i’ve only just spotted they do. anyway, this is ideal if you want to see the curry boys being filmed. whatever that is. (i think it’s unrelated to the advert being filmed a few streets away). there was also some filming trucks and food place next to the Royal Albert Hall yesterday. no idea if it’s related. sorry for my lack of knowledge. i do my best, but you know. sometimes. it’s just not good enough.
this piece of paper was lying by the GMTV studios 4 hours later when i walked back past them after my meeting. i took a photo of it as i thought it might show The Feeling and it would go nicely with the photos of the band.
i took the photo then went on my way. i nearly took it with me as a momento, but it was covered in coffee, and i’m no longer a 16 year old celebrity item hoarder (mostly).
imagine my surprise when i looked at the photo i took of the picture above to discovered it displayed the mobile phone number for Dr Hilary Jones, Annabel Croft and various others ! i deliberately cropped the photo so you can’t see them.
what outrageousness ! i should tell someone. if only i had the phone number of someone who would be interested …
i like to get to meetings early so i have time to read through any papers, eat a cake and perhaps take some photos on the way. yesterday i got up early and arrived two hours early for a meeting. along the way i saw The Feeling.
more pictures on my flickr stream
i didn’t even know they were until last weekend when i saw them on the BBC’s glastonbury coverage
i had the day off yesterday so jane and i attempted to find lots of geoaches (but we got lost and couldn’t find any so we went back to the car then managed to find two we’d previously not been able to find. humph). anyway, we popped in to an art studio which we passed in the car and found it had been temporarily converted in to a make up studio for some TV program. which involves crows and people holding kids it seems
this is in a window in a charity shop near Farringdon Station in london. it was presented to david f weinham in reocgnition of achieved sales in austria of 25,000 units of the single des’ree “life”. austria 1998.
it was fifty pounds if you’re interested.
and i’d like to take this opportunity to say a public thanks to all austria unit shifters. thanks.
this is probably the queen or prime minister or someone. they tend to zoom through london with a police motorcycle party and some big 4x4s. i bet you can’t believe i get so close to these people !
reason here
i spotted this man being filmed on the southbank. looked a bit unpleasant with his makeup. any idea who he is ? (and don’t say me in my goth days!)
here’s the very excellent carl barat sitting outside a pub off marylebone high street. he kindly let me take this attractive photo.
here’s the skinny one from trinny and suzanne whizzing by in a taxi. i’ve caught the movement i think.
and here’s matt albright off the telly in a photo. oh, i didn’t get a photo. there was definately a decline in photo ability as the day when on and my cold grew worse.
our friend sally is an illustrator and as a result esther appeared in people’s friend last week !
remember jane, esther and me went to see Are You Smarter Than A 10 Year Old ? Well, the episodes we were on are now showing. we were on the end part of last Sunday’s one and should be on all of this coming week’s episode and the one after. You can play online here
jane is very clear (especially if you’ve got HD apparently). and i only turn up if the contestants move out the way !
(by the way, i edited the picture above so you can see me – it doesn’t appear like this in the real show. although that would make a nice ‘red button’ feature).
finally, some of you will know i work for the company that shows this program (clue on the screen). I’ve got some half price staff offers for friends and family if you haven’t already got our method of watching TV (and another upgrade offer for someone who has). if you are interested let me know asap. deadline is 16th Nov so be quick !
i was lucky enough to hear mr $100 laptop speak at a conference yesterday in westminster. here he is with his back to us.
i saw debbie mcgee at a train station yesterday. she kindly let me take her photo and was very nice.
i spotted vanessa feltz on the other side of marylebone highstreet yesterday
as i came out of a meeting at a company head office last week i saw ellen macarthur being professionally photographed. i only realised it was her once she’d walked past me and out the door though, so apologies for the lack of picture !
she’s quite small and was carrying her own bags.
and the next day i saw chris eubank in his almost-invisible-on-london-roads lorry cabs. his lorry cab pulled up (on a red route) and he jumped out the passenger seat and ran in to a chemist shop.
see, my celebrity knowledge extends beyond comedians, and includes (at least 2) sports people !
how’s this for a celebrity spot ? it’s sue pollard. we saw her in the audience at the blue peter proms.
esther said she liked her hair and she thought she was called Sue Bollard which would have been much better.
if only i’d known she’d been one of the voice of Noisy in Little Robots, i could have appeared more knowledgeable and down with the kids
to celebrate the end of jane’s marking, jane and i went to Cliveden House yesterday for a walk. The place is getting ready for wedding on saturday
it’s obviously going to be quite an exciting event for someone
there’s a big disco thing being set up on the terrace (2 days early)
and i liked how they stored all the flight cases in the underground vaulty bits
you can see how big the undercover area is from these distant shots
and on this one you can make out the thames 200 feet lower down on the left to give you some idea of the geography (google earth sky-view here)
update: the wedding is between Steven Gerrard, 27, Liverpool Captain and Alex Curran, 24, former nail technician who met Gerrard at a nightclub and is mother of his two children, Lilly-Ella, three and Lexie, one. I know this because it was in the London Evening Standard this evening. Once again, Funkypancake was first with the news !
