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cleaning

prehistoric

in the days before dyson …
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not quite abbey road

the art of photography is spotting something which is about to happen and grabbing the moment as it does with your camera. if you are photographing a glove that can be quite easy.
here i saw three cleaning trollies heading for a zebra crossing and i though “aha, abbey road“.
so i starting taking my photos to capture the moment they all went in a line
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and just as they did, two mopeds turned up to block the view
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and before anyone says anything, yes, i know there were three of them, and they were pushing cleaning trollies and there was a central reservation and they were heading right to left, not left to right, and it’s not actually on Abbey Road.
it was never going to be that beatles cover was it. oh well.

gum busters

here is a gum busters trolley. the helium balloon simply adds to the fun of gum busting
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further up the street were hundreds of little gum scars, zapped away by the high pressure gum busting jet
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the church cleaning rota

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there’s probably something spiritual here about going to church and cleansing yourself, or maybe getting rid of the rubbish in your life. i’m sure there’s a good pun i’m missing here though.