found stuff

here is a photo of a lady peeping out of a bin. peek-a-boo lady

i had to stop the car and take this photo out of the window. wife and kids very impressed by my dedication to finding items in the street. this was in the countryside miles from anywhere. why would anyone bother to drive for miles in to the countryside to dump a fridge ? the council can come and collect them from your house i think. nought so queer as folk

this morning i saw a neat row of unopened cigars on the pavement:

here are the individual cigars:

upsway down washing machine with its guts ripped out.

an old favourite find this morning: a fridge

it’s length fitted exactly the width of the raised pavement it was resting on. sort of makes you feel it was meant to be left there don’t you think ?

i walked a different route to work today. i didn’t much care for it. it took about 5 minutes longer, but that may have been due my hesitation at traffic crossings due to my lack of familiarisation with the road layout.
on the way I saw these bits of meat:

you don’t want to leave meat outside even on cold days. leaving it out on very hot days is asking for trouble. i particularly disliked the bits on the right of the picture:

this morning i saw three chairs:
one burnt (the hot seat)

one stool

one comfy

these nails were all over the rails. they are clippy naily things for attaching wires to walls etc. i thought they looked nice in a randomly spread kind of way

I was delighted to find some photo bits on my way in to work this morning (after seeing Hugh Grant). The bits were spread over about 100 metres, all along Tottenham Street. The first two bits I found were the two smiling mouths.

I spotted this bird at the train station this morning. I could just see its legs poking over the top of the rails. Looked a bit comedy so I took a photo

here is the number 5 in the street. it’s on a flip pad type arrangement with, i suspect, the other numbers accessible by flipping over pages. perhaps it belongs to a bygone quizmaster who has now gone digital

this morning there were old milk bottles all over the place. the whole of london is rancid. I must have seen around 10 bottles / cartons of old milk spewing milk blobs. nice.

i often see dog catcher vans round london. nowadays they capture furniture (it contains the future remember). here are two gentlement catching a sofa and a bookshelf. they were distracted by a 9volt power supply in a box, so didn’t spot me taking this photo.

these people are a menace, and an enemy to the casual furniture / white good spotter.

someone had cleverly placed a set of table legs and frame around a bin, thus creating a table bin. brilliant concept. just eat your dinner and push what you don’t want in to the hole in the middle.

i walked to chancery lane this morning from paddington station for a 10am meeting. on the way i passed a very posh street next to Hyde Park. It was so posh they even had free magazines in boxes for the locals to read whilst having their afternoon strolls.
All you high society magazines were there: tatler, cosmo etc.
And from the wording on the box they are all provided by the Westminster Council. Their council tax is high, but certainly worth it I imagine.

two nice chairs passed on my way to work this morning

I also saw a pair of knickers hanging out of the bin in the street opposite the office …

it used to be that you’d see records everywhere. now it’s mostly tapes and CDs in the street.
I was pleasantly surprised to see this piece of vinyl in the street this morning:

Uptown Top Rankin’ by Tight N Up
1989 Fanfare Records, it’s stereo, 12 FAN 20

found in Praed Street near the wig shop

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