having kids makes you realise that this bear is one of two things: chaff or chum.
if it’s chaff then it’s simply another teddy in someone’s collection and it’s loss will not be noticed (it may have been thrown out deliberately).
if it’s a chum then it’s a vital friend of the child who will be missing it dearly and searching high and low for it. there will be tears and sleepless nights for all involved.
let’s assume it’s chaff so as not to upset ourselves on a monday morning.
esther spotted this and was desperate for me to take a photo. i happily obliged.
here is a clock in the street near where i live. it reminded me of my previous clock coincidence. esther was very concerned as it wasn’t working (and neither was I)
click clock to see it in its full glory.
this pile of cack was on the street outside my favourite charity shop. i think it was from a split bin bag (bling bag ?) and was probably charity rejects. there’s a level of second hand junk that even charity shops don’t want.
including a Hayes V34+ analogue modem (with adapter) it seems.
yeah, just found another photo:
read all about it on the davescollections website
esther spotted this bobble and was adamant that i stand and delivered a photograph of it. so it did. she’s pointing at it on the floor on the right hand side
here is a shoe in the river thames. perhaps there is someone upside down (‘upsway down’ according to esther) still wearing it. we didn’t pick it out to find out. sometimes it’s best just to leave these things be.
when i took this photo i thought it was a glove. upon further inspection in the comfort of my own home it looks more like socks
i once wondered crafted a phrase which i shall share with you now
“That’s not a table, it’s a backless widechair”
you can use that if you like.
a three legged chair can be a good thing, but only if you lay the legs out correctly. there is something to learn for us here.
here is a scrap of paper i saw on the floor outside a restaurant where i had just eaten chicken. It says ‘hen you die’.
a new photo for davescollections. i spent ages picking up the bits in marylebone high street yesterday evening. unfortunately i must have missed a piece !
yet another photo for davescollections. we had a family outing to london today. we were very tired by the time we got to westminster, but i was keen we walked up whitehall to trafalgar square. it also meant we passed horseguard parade so i would get a photo of a horse for today’s advent calendar picture.
Just next to horseguards parade, jane spotted the top of this bloke’s head on a teeny piece of photo on the floor. we then spent the next five minutes on a family hunt for other bits of the photo. we only managed to find 3 pieces. I suspect they may actually belong to two seperate photos because the bottom two bits overlap slightly.
so how fantastic is that ! a family lost photo find. i would definately have walked past this one. esther was very pleased.
home made biscuit on a grafitti-ed telephone cabinet
and here is a lemon on a zebra crossing
here is a photo i received on our internal post at work. last time i received such a photo it was a fake. therefore i can only assume the same here.
but i shall give the sender some pleasure by displaying the photo here anyway. i won’t put it on davescollections as an official photo though !
round the corner from the pop idol bus were these two bottles of baileys (empty). i thought they looked quite nice balanced on a pavement edge opposite a pub.
i often see money and i rarely pick it. i prefer to leave it for those who really need it. here is £1.
another passport photo. this time found by myself at Edgware Road tube station.
i wasn’t going to get off at this station (as paddington station, where i was heading, was the next stop), but found myself unmistakenly drawn to get up and walk the 10 minutes to paddington.
as i walked up the stairs which lead to the exit i found this photo for my collection
being on top of the world from such spiritual guidance i walked boldly off to paddington station. on the way a police man stopped me and said “and why do you think you can walk down here sir ?”.
It turned out there was a ‘suspect package’ in the street and they had closed the road (though tube trains were probably running just under the road !).
If i’d be quick of thought i would have answered “because i am impervious to explosives”, but you never think of these things at the time. in the end my walk took me 20 minutes instead because of the diversion, but it was worth it to find the photo.
this is my first cut-out photo.
by the way, i’m planning on a proper makeover to the davescollection website which is why i haven’t updated it for a while. this will be my christmas project, and my main present to my friends and family (apologies to those expecting CDs etc) …
