transport

in my day people feared pirates. now they advertise them

i saw this spectacle this morning which had no news interest. it was simply a fire scare or something.
i liked how this sign says “there is a good service on all lines” then also says “emergency. do not enter”.

but there quite a lot of firemen about (you can see them on the road if you click the picture)

and a red fire-engine and some red buses

have you been waiting for an appropriate junctor ? well. here’s a pretty good one, observed from a tall building

here’s a message on a post-it which you could use at almost any occasion.
when would you NOT use it ?

kezia and i stumbled across the reading waterfest. it was jolly good fun with lots of canal paraphenalia. Kez and i went on a canal boat ride which unfortunately crashed in to a bridge ! (luckily it didn’t break anything or anyone and we carried on our way).

the finale of the festival was the duck race where loads of plastic ducks were set lose to float down the canal (think about that for a moment). once the excitement was over and the winner was anounced people went home. we stayed to watch this little boat catch the remaining plastic ducks.

ti’s the bike which isn’t quite moonbike again. i do my pictures bigger nowadays so it’s worth showing you again !

the cage is slightly worrying.

i lost my front tooth doing exactly this trick when i was aged 12.
perhaps this man thrives on danger. he’s wearing dark glasses and the bags are full of dynamite. (i made the second of these two facts up)

here is a taxi with the union jack reflected in the window and the BBC building behind it. very british.

here’s another one (see the bonnet reflection for the recently refurbished outside of the BBC’s broadcasting house)

you asked me to investigate this car which i spotted a few days back. so that’s what i did.
here’s another photo. it turns out it’s an electric car.

buy one or get more info at www.goingreen.co.uk

memorise these controls. you never know when you might have to rejig a cherry picker configuration in the dark.
ignore me at your peril.

it’s been nearly two years since we last saw one of these. so it’s good to see they are still in use. in fact this one looks even more enticing – and i don’t even play slots (despite the best effort of blog comment spammers to convince me)

liberachi’s car in Selfridge’s window on Oxford Street. more reflection than car i’m afraid but that adds to the effect.