odd

spring is in the air and the bulbs are bursting forth. these bulbs are gathering in a tangled mess.

it’s bin (sorry) a while since the last bin update. look at its new position (and the bin in the distance by the lights on the other side).
they are up to something i’m sure, but i haven’t worked out what yet.

this pub has a secret room that no-one can find an entrance to according the bar man. i said i didn’t believe him. “there’s always a hatch” i said. but apparently there isn’t.

look at this protruding screw. be careful not to scuff your shoe.

i forgot to tell you that the toy museum opposite my office which was going to shut down now isn’t.
So there’s good news for you.
If you are going to visit, drop me an email and i’ll wave at you from my window.

i’m working from home today in our dining room. i like to choose different seats around the table to sit at when i’m working and at this moment i’m sitting on jane’s chair next to kezia’s high chair.
from this angle i can see where kezia puts her feet. to my amazement there’s a small man there. he looks quite stern and a little bit like a school teacher.
he can’t talk (or at least he’s refusing to speak to me right now) but if he could i bet he’d tell us a fantastic story of how he got there.

kids love balloons. it seems that grown ups like them too. classically they are used in car show rooms to encourage people to part with many thousands of [appropriate local currency unit] for a new car.
who is it that impulse buys a car based on the fact the showroom has balloons hanging up ?
this pub has gone for a similar approach. oooh look. balloons. i think i need to buy myself a pint.

this little corner of london often has some art stuck on it. it’s proper stuff, not someone messing about.
but it always looks like a random load of rubbish. so the council have to stick signs on it saying “this is art not rubbish, please don’t throw it away” (or words to that effect)

there’s nothing better than a nice barbeque in this barmy british weather. britain (unlike any man) is an island. so it’s ideal to have your BBQ on an island.
these people chose a traffic island in trafalgar square for their barbeque. i would have spent a bit longer trying to get a nice angle so you could have seen the square behind them, but i was on my way for a meeting with some MPs and probably would have been late.

i spotted this two exploded furnitures about 20 minutes apart on my walk to the station last night. a coincidence or something more sinister ?

look at the state of this double glazing. rubbish. i could have done better myself.
actually i probably couldn’t.

look at this slice of bread delivered on a massive bread pallet.
“just one slice today please Mr Baker”.

coke can off the edgware road. it’s definately a real coke can as it said coca-cola in normal writing on the other side.

here is a floating piece of flourescent rubbish in the thames at henley. from the angle we viewed it, it looked like an arrow. but in fact it was a flat piece of yellow wood and it was just an illusion !

i bought this DVD the other day. technically it’s a bit tricky to navigate but content wise it’s fantastic.
how stupid we were in the 1970s. good job we had people to tell us common sense.
but how scarey are some of the information films – over half of them end up in people being seriously injured on the road, in a factory etc. it’s very scarey.
“old fridges can kill” is a particular favourite.
i was to young to remember the Protect and Survive thing, but the info films are really disturbing.
do you know what this is ? it’s a ‘casualty’. if they die in your safe room you need to poke them through the door after 2 days and label them up. after 5 days you can bury the body in the garden.

you can view some public information films on this excellent website

here are two tuppeny pieces stuck to the floor. they’ve obviously been there a while as they are well worn. it’s nice to think of the generations of people who will have stooped to pick them up (and failed)

everyone knows that kids explode if they run faster than 6 miles per hour. there is a danger zone between 5 and 6 miles per hour when they could go off, but you can’t be sure.
best to be careful just in case.

funeral directors are funny old places (without the humour obviously). here is such a place off Brick Lane. It’s nice how they have provided some reference clients so you can see what other people got.
it’s also a nice idea because of the british weather. it’s raining again today, but anyone who’s buried in here will be nice and dry because the shop is fully glazed and has modern doors and everything.