people

sometimes photos look better from the wrong side.

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this person looked way to cool to be in the middle of London’s business centre. but what do i know.

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shortly after i took the photo this beefeater suddenly shot up to heaven.

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it’s a job. but i imagine you’re not allowed much creativity.

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it’s amazing what you don’t quite see when you walk through london parks at a very early hour.
this picture matched my eyes.

it’s a wooden man with a flourescent jacket. looks like he can be turned upsway down to get a negative version of himself.
very strange.

i tend to walk a bit faster than other people, especially on the way to or from the station.
in the morning there’s usually not many people about but in the evening i sometime verge on the edge of pavement rage when i get stuck behind a group of wide-walkers with big bags (especially when i’ve timed my 38 minutes walk to get a specific train).
this evening i got stuck behind a pirate. but instead of getting angry i decided to ask if i could take a photo. so here it is.
there’s a moral here (somewhere). And it’s good to know pirates aren’t as scary as they used to be.
i think they’ve been on a government pirate integration program.
and yes, i did miss my train.

here is a waiter man in a bar.
we challenged him to a three way game of paper, scissors, stone. Although we didn’t realise at the time.

his prize for winning was letting him use my camera to take this photo of my work colleagues. note the appearance of long lost sara (once known as lady with cakes):

this lady let me take a picture of her collecting money for phab. I don’t often give money to street collectors as you can never be too sure where the money will end up.
But i made an exception for her as she looked fantastic, was really jolly, and was representing a good charity.

i saw the scooby doo movie on sunday night. walking behind this lady rushing for my train i became convinced it was scooby in disguise.
as i went past i stole a glance. it wasn’t.

esther has a book called What Do People Do All Day?. it’s very good and makes you wonder … what people do all day.
our friends heather and clive run a professional chauffeur company called Executive Direct and transport people all over the place. clive was particularly excited this morning to tell me all about his new car, which seems more like a luxury ocean liner than a taxi.
i used to have a picture of it here, but i removed it for copyright reasons (related to archiving)

these two ladies had exactly the same clothes, and hair and backpacks and shoes and were walking in sync with each other.
unfortunately too many cars were in the way and i only got a clear shot when they turned the corner.
how strange it would be to have an identical twin.

it’s that time of year when new students have to do comedy things to prove they are new. here are a couple of rugby teams taped together in groups of four climbing up the stairs.

this lady sells newspapers outside St Paul’s Tube Station (why did Saint Paul need his own Tube Station ? Stations of the cross or something maybe).
anwyay, i’d seen her picture on another website recently so i mentioned this to her and she said in a really giggly voice “ooooh, i’m famous” !