a jolly belgium dog sign
seems cats are banned too.
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posh seats
i bet you have to wear a shell-suit if you want to sit on these.
beer
british people can't get enough beer. so we've finally got 24 hour drinking. and there's compulsary beer road blocks, such as seen here, next to the public toilets in covent garden. very convenient.
random beligian events
the chap sitting next to me on the eurostar was about the same age as me (ie 400 months old tomorrow) and he put a giant pair of headphones on, plugged in his giant portable cd player and played load music. despite looking very uncool the music he was playing can only be described as 'light vocal'.
i did notice when he changed the CD that he was listening to two rick astley CDs, both of which were signed !
after checking in to my hotel i went out for a meal in a restaurant and the person next to me left her magazine behind. being on my own i decided to read it (it was in french). i managed to understand most of this article on hemorrhoids, and there was also an article on constipation, so all based were covered. haemorrhoids are the third most common belgian ailment you know ?
mannequin pis
it's the wee wee chap again.
the tahiti room
i'm in brussels for a conference and rather than staying in the expensive hotel where it's being held i decided to do a google for 'strange hotel brussels' and came up with this place i'm staying, which is half the price and twice the fun.
the hotel is called the welcome hotel and is very cool (the photos section of the website shows some of the other room designs)
i'm staying in the tahiti room
the strange world of daytime television
this is some daytime television quiz appartus i think
courthouse hotel
this is a fancy place to visit
trapped
a very sinister scene: a man trapped in a phone box by a bollard and a big doc marten boot in the foreground.
slippery floor sign
it's always great to see a new variant of an old friend, and this is a great one. i blame his winkelpicker shoes.
knowing right from left
knowing right from wrong xcan be tricky, but knowing which is your right and which is your left even trickier.
esther came up with this great trick for remembering and we decided to share it with you here in case you need to teach anyone else (particularly school children) how to remember which side is left and which side is right.
esther made this up (at least she claims she did). you start by putting your hands in front of you with your thumbs pointing towards the middle and your first finger pointing in the air, like so.
you then look at your own hands and the one which forms an 'L' shape is the left hand one. brilliant !
cracked camera
here's a picture of andrew's camera with its broken screen which is quite pretty in a strange way.
found music
here's some sheet music i found in the street. i've left the photo big enough for people to read and play
one thing leads to another
kezia won some glitter in a bran tub at her pre-school winter fair. bran tubs are funny things. it would be good one time to have a few live hamsters and gerbils living in one. everyone would enjoy that.
anyway, kezia and i then went home and she made this glitter picture which she insisted i photograph to post on the blog. so here it is
a lovely dinner
our friends invited us over for dinner last night and we had a lovely time.
here are the pink puddings:
kezia and alice
simeon at the end of the long table
where to go curling
the place we went curling was Fenton's Rink and it was most excellent. you must go with a group of friends and have a go.
i've put a few more photos here
an actual olympic gold medal
i'm unlikely to ever own one of these:
primarily because it was won at an event in the past and was awarded for the women's curling. an event i didn't take part in:
Debbie Knox won it instead:
cleaning and curling
curling is a funkypancake sport. not because i'm good at it though, because i'm not.
look at his utility bin.
beyond brushes, which are an essential part of the game, you also get to wear the most fantastic shoes.
initially they looked like normal trainers:
but you can pull the rubber bottom off (called a 'kipper') and reveal a super-slippy teflon sole, enabling you to whizz about on the ice like a mad thing
and look at all the other gadgets and gizmos you can get:
uneatable
i sent kezia to stand in front of this sign as i was too scared.
a week of meetings
i don't know if you noticed but this week's blog was all preloaded on sunday night. i'm just so stupid busy at work.
on monday i went from meeting to meeting and ended up eating only 4 cough sweets all day (but i did manage dinner in the house of lords, so i guess that made up for it). yesterday i ran from meeting to meeting and the whole day passed in a blur.
at one point i passed this sign. i went to the meeting at the top but the other two looked at least as interesting, if not more so. i'm especially curious about the bottom one (london deanery think tank).
controlling london
can you spot the coffee cup ?
trading waste
what a great idea. i'll swap you my rubbish for your rubbish
police information box
nowadays you can get all this information from their website
a chilly morning
it was a bit chilly when we arrived at church yesterday morning
