found stuff

there is a modern trend to walk down the street with a cup of coffee on the way to or from work and meetings. of course people also talk on their mobiles whilst walking down the street.
so what do you do if your phone rings and you have a cup of coffee ? well you put the coffee down of course. but where ?
on a street coaster of course. here is one decorated with a cow in the middle of the road.
personally i think it’s a little dangerous to walk in to the middle of the road to put your coffee down, but the risk assessment men with their complicated spreadsheets will probably have calculated that for this particular piece of road, the risk of burning your ear with coffee whilst answering your phone is greater

here is a cushion in the street. perhaps this is a ‘fainting blackspot’ and the council have taken protective action.

here is a tape i found. i left it there in case it contained something bad. and i haven’t got a video tape player (my betamax video player only plays analogue beta tapes).

here’s a good safety idea. it’s a whistle left in the street. if anyone has any problems they can pick it up and blow it and the local constabulary will come and help them

i found THREE seperate photos yesterday. all of them passport ones (my favourites). They were all in different bits of London and all totally random finds. someone was trying to tell me something … but what ?

people of the street have a lot of facilities made available to them by the council. here is a microwave and laser printer

big excitement !!! found another photo for the davescollections site this evening on the way back home. it had obviously been in a puddle for quite a while as the colour has all washed away.
i was very pleased with this find as it was on the opposite side of the road from where i usually walk and the street lights weren’t very bright.

as always, i’ll add to the main site once i find time to do the Frontpage thing.

it’s stopped raining which is good news. i’ve decided to stop work on my Ark for a while. other people have taken equally affirmative anti-rain actions.
here is a brolly someone has simply cast aside in to the gutter. i bet they’ll regret that once the rains comes back. or maybe they’ve got another one. who knows. who cares.

where there’s gloves there’ll always be hats (and plenty of apostrophes)

left at a bus stop

here is a very exciting thing. it’s a posh shoe on a stone pillar. it was on a main road near a crossroads and a train station. we have friends who live nearby but they’ve temporarily moved because their house is falling down.
i spotted this find as we whizzed by in the car (i was driving). 5 minutes later we had to drive back down the same road so i got jane to drive and she let me run out and take the photo (much like she did for the army barracks dog a week or so back)

the shoe looked very new. perhaps someone threw it out because they realised it was beige ?

is this one of those poor jelly babies i saw the other day or a different one ? It was looking very dirty. a jelly baby tramp.

another photo found by Telco-John for davescollections. but is it a fake ?

click for big version (it’s in an envelope for protection!)

exciting morning – found a photo in the street which i can add to davescollections later. (i generally obscure the faces when the picture is obviously of a child)

here is the answer to lack of storage space for the homeless. it’s part of the government’s scheme called ‘drawer for the poor’ (sounds more convincing when said with a Yorkshire access ‘draw-er for the po-or’

meanwhile the outside heating concept (also for the homeless perhaps) is proving so popular they’ve also provided more radiators and a television set (as i suggested for a different application last week)

as reported earlier i was concerned that i may have been misled over one of my found passport photos. it was submitted by a work colleague.
but it appears that the person who submitted it was having a jape at my expense (as suspected by at least one of my colleagues). i didn’t want to believe it, but i can’t hide from the truth.

therefore, it is with great sadness that i announce that Boy 34 is a fake.