odd

loose limbs in a shop window

this morning i saw a bucket. it belonged to a man who was cleaning a street light with a mop on a long stick (like this one and this one).
His bucket contained a liquid which was so black it was almost a mirror. it was very peculiar and was definately haunted.
and just now i went past a bucket next to a drain cleaner van and it contained this mysterious orange substance. again, the colour was unlike any other i’d seen before (in an orangey/goldy glowey kind of way). it reminded me of the wall on the back of the spaceship on blake’s 7 (if my remembory serves me well)
what IS going on ?

jane poured the water out of the cat glass as she was worried the cat might dissolve. i pointed out that that was the point. (lots of words duplication in that last sentence). so i filled it up again. but i took a photo first

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here are two people. one is carrying a giant wheel and the other is mostly belly

this box is outside a hospital i pass on the way to work. it’s marked ‘outpatients’ and has fragile stickers on it.
patients have to be posted back to their homes to avoid having to buy any more patient ambulances

further random protection items. this time around lampposts. perhaps it’s for celebrity dogs.
to my delight a milk float decided to involve itself in the photo

here is a man cleaning high up windows with a brush on the end of a long stick.
you’ve got to love a man with a really long cleaning brush like this. he obviously loved it too as he was smiling at all the passing ladies.

here is some turf near buckingham palace. it looked good so i photo’d it for you. my photo inspired others to take a photo and before i knew it i was the official turf photographer.
a french lady with two teenage girls decided i should take photos of them all next to the turf. she handed me a camera and said “i have two machines” and passed me another.
i was going to get a photo of me taking the photo of them but i didn’t.

here are some end bits:

i’ve never understood why nature has to cover itself with camouflage. what’s it hiding from ? this tree had classic army camo colours (greens/yellow/brown). but i still spotted it.

here are two people painted white snogging on paddington station waiting area. i think they were doing something official

update: having read the comments, i suppose they are trying to recreate ‘the snog’ as seen in the tate modern

here is a skip full of stuff, in the air. but how is it managing to fly ?
i suspect it’s got something with crane it was attached to.

remember the hairy cat ? If not, familiarise yourself with it first, then come back and see what happened next. Thanks to michelle for urging me to get on and do this.
see how we turned it from hairy back to slippery smooth (some of the photos are clickable):

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here is a man playing an instrument which just had one string and a funny thing to wiggle to make the note go wobbly.
it was like a theremin without the electronics. i was very impressed. i asked what it was called and he told me. i was none the wiser as it had a chinese name.

here are three photos sent to me from cousin mike.
the chap with kermit is probably my wife’s mother’s sister’s husband. but might not be. spot the china cup which i becoming a regular feature. the other is a dog i think.

and here are some pebbles. i hope they were shadow-proof.

jane ate a boiled egg last night, but the girls had used the egg cups so she used an austin powers shot glass. i think it works.

here are four dictionaries in a bookshop window. the spanish one had faded to be nearly unreadable. the german and the french one were a little better but still looking a big dog-eared. the english one looked fine. makes you think.

i’ve talked about scarey dolls before. here is another one which has very strange eyes, mouth, eyebrows and a very high forehead. generally very scarey.
Pam had knitted and crochetted this doll’s dress, gloves, shoes and even nappy especially for our visit !

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here is a sinister army based thing which we passed on the way to my granny’s house. see the circular buildings and aerials. very mysterious.

if you have a pet dog you take it for a walk. if you have a cat then it does it’s own thing which usually involves wandering round the neighbourhood.
but what if you run a mini-rainforest ? how do you keep your captive fish happy ? obvious. you drag them round in their tank on a trolley !