odd

when they replace this seat they should include bottles of wine for the winos like they have on this bench:

i love photobooths as they provide passport photos which people lose and i can find
this man was standing in a booth at Paddington Station. I got a £2 coin out to put in the slot at the outside to give him a shock when it took some photos, but unfortunately the coin slot is now on the inside.
so i took this photo from the outside instead

it was very very wet walking in to work this morning. i took my glasses off so i could see better which sort of worked.
this was a mysterious site. a bit like crop circles, only with leaves and on the road.

i suspect that there is some demarkation thing going on between the pavement cleaners and the road cleaners. it’s the thawny subject of ‘gutter edge ownsership’
pavement cleaners are probably responsible for the pavement and up to half a metre in to the road (to make sure the gutter is cleared). Road cleaners are responsible for the road, which for their pursposes starts half a metre from the gutter edge.
However, there seems to be one of two problems going on here:
1) there is a calibration problem and the pavement / street cleaners measurements are undermeasured
2) the pavement cleaners are measuring the distance from the pavement side of the kerb stone whilst the street cleaners are measuring it from the road side, leaving a gap the size of the kerb stones in the road.
perhaps there are other explanations …

here is a misfunctioning BT multimedia payphone. the pattern is hypnotic encouraging us to buy more cheese (i suspect)

and here is an ancient public payphone which has seen better days

here is a phone box on the beach

here is a tree called ash. i have a colleague called ash. they are not the same

sara from the office found a giant piece of confectionary. it’s a white malteser which is 2cm long (that’s .5cm bigger than a normal malteser). she confirmed that it tasted no good, thus confirming my fears over genetically modified items.
here it is displayed alongside it’s more normal sized friend:

things you don’t expect to find in your house in england in november.

#1 a pretty butterfly

working from home today, so i usually expect low quality blog content. however, i was delighted to see this cooker in a neighbours garden when i opened my office curtains this morning.

more outside warming, but a lot more convenient than a BBQ

more shocking stuff from the mad london milkman. this morning there was a nice chest of drawers on his float. maybe it’s his drinks cabinet. i hope to see an arm chair and a television up there tomorrow.

phones are always getting smaller.

this one, modelled here by esther, has a nice polyphonic ring tone and picture messaging facility.

there is always building work going on round london. i spotted this near liverpool street. it’s a build it by numbers kit. probably colour coded too. possibly sponsored by sesame street

cranberries have just moved in to the UK. i’d never heard of them when i was a kid, but now they seem to be everywhere. i had ostrich and cranberry burger last week, and now here is a can of cranberry spray. it’s for spraying surface or space. worth remembering if you ever join nasa and want to iradicate intergalactic odours.

you know trolley man ? well, there are some mattresses in the place where he usually parks up his trolleys. The mattresses are balanced on a bed base.
on closer inspection it appeared there was in fact someone sleeping on the bed ! I suspect it was trolley man, but i didn’t think it was a good idea to disturb him to check.

britain’s newest blogstopper, telco-john, was eating an apple whilst reading the funkypancake blog. his concentration lapsed resulting in his consumption of half a fruity label.

this was in the vasser museum:

it reads:
Melker Pavelsson was mongering fish at the market – large and exquisite herring. At the bottom of his firkin, however, the herring was >>small and no good << makes you think

put out fires by firing skum at it

the screens in heathrow have very small writing. so small you have to be standing right next to it to read it. i suspect it’s a rooooos to make us buy binoculars. but we didn’t so ha.