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real life monopoly
someone has actually put a real monopoly hotel on this street.
i stopped (to take this picture) but i didn't pay
blog upgrade
i'm about to attempt a server upgrade, so apologies if weirdness appears for a short while
searching for dinosaurs on the beach
we went to Charmouth beach to find fossils when we were on holiday. A man in the information desk recommended visiting Seatown at low tide and so we did.
i instantly hit gold (quite nearly literally) by finding 2 £1 coins on the beach in the pebbles
the only big fossil we found was this one stuck in a rock
here's esther looking for fossils
we did eventually find loads of teeny fossils, but i didn't take any pictures of them ! Sorry about that
crazy transport
this was a mad train thing at a makeshift park in a farm that we went to over the summer.
it was basically some feed barrels with a hole cut at the top, and a plastic garden chair wedged in. the whole thngs was plopped on to some trailer type thing and pulled by a golf trolley
there was no suspension so our poor children were shaked to pieces (and loved it so much then went on twice). that cow on the front isn't fooling anyone.
little and large
large campervan with a teeny weeny smart car on the back
emergency snacks and confectionary
this incident catering unit van was at jane's half marathon. What a fantastic name for a van. And what a brilliant idea too.
they could have all sorts of advertising messages, like "all events catered for", or pun around the words incident/instant.
available now for all your emergency sandwich needs.
and if you click on the picture you'll note on the big version it says 'teapo' on the side. which is a nice idea.
page numbered posters on the tube
this is quite up to the usual numbering standards as the number is stuck on the outside of the glass. but it's nearly the same isn't it ?
10001 miles on my car
my car started the day at 10,001 miles yesterday morning which was exciting. to celebrate me and it (gender neutral) went for a huge diversion with our friend TomTom on the way home. Mostly to avoid a huge queue on the M4 motorway, but also to enjoy the fun of being controlled (direct-wise) by a computer.
Commuting by car is getting easier, but to avoid most of the traffic i leave home about 6.15am but still sit in queues clogging up the atmosphere with motory-badness.
sorry, we've ran out of pasteries at the moment
this sign almost made up for the fact they had runned out of pasteries. but not quite.
have you ever sent me pictures ?
i'm having a bit of blog spring clean because i got an email about something quite exciting. unfortunately it means i need to check about copyright on photos which people have sent me.
i've sent emails to everyone i can think of who has sent me pictures which i've put on the blog. If you've ever sent me a photo which i've used on the blog, and you didn't get the email, could you get in contact pls (details on the right).
thanks - dave (aka funkypancake)
inequality
clothed man but not woman.
it's a tough course
jane's instruction book for the marathon warned that people often drop dead on marathons, which was quite encouraging. and so was this sign.
jane's windsor half marathon victory
jane ran her first half marathon yesterday. rather than doing a standard one, she chose the hilliest one possible - The Windsor Half Marathon
jane thinking about the run ahead of her
the start of the half-marathon involves a mile long run up a long straight hill (to the copper horse, if you are interested)
jane just over 1 hour in
the windsor half marathon runs a very pretty course through Windsor Park. plenty of trees to sit under for spectators
jane half way through (already declaring a victory)
a deer which ran across the marathon route
the official winner (1 mile in)
Our winner - half a marathon over
update: i forgot to mention that she did her half marathon in 2hrs 20mins !
dog charity collection vessel
this was a particularly good charity collection tin, almost life sized, and the object you were inserting in to was also the same thing you were supporting (guide dogs for the blind). the chap leaning on it to the right sets it off nicely.
toby's head
here is a chap i work with called toby. i randomly walked past him in ealing yesterday. i was on the way to work and so was he (but in completely different locations).
i was walked as my car was being mended. a boring and anoying story i'll tell you in person someday. too tedious and annoying for documentation here.
meanwhile, have a picture of toby's head.
page 56 or not page 56 ?
i had a meeting in london last night so came back through paddington station. as you know i always look out for the giant posters which have page numbers, and i noticed that this one, page 56, also appeared without its page number.
i wondered if this was the missing link which would reveal the reason behind the sign page numbering ?
without
with
the day i nearly killed paul weller (by accident)
yesterday i saw Paul Weller walking down Edgware Road. he was just stopping at a pedestrian crossing and before he started going over it i asked if i could take his picture. He didn't say anything but stepped back a bit and did this funny pose !
After i'd taken the photo and thanked him kindly he then stepped out on to the road and nearly got run over by a white transit van. luckily he spotted it in plenty of time and there was no real danger (in case his life assurance company are reading this).
if he had been run over i would have gone down in history as one of the great celebrity deceasors. i'm not really thinking mark chapman, probably more like the chap who planted the tree which eventually got Marc Bolan.
still, paul weller is a proper celebrity int 'e ?
washeteria
i've never seen a non photogenic laundrette
peter stringfellow
here is peter stringfellow walking past a door (not to be confused with a different stringfellow)
little and large
neither of these cars are my car, but i did think they looked like one was a squashed version of the other.
no antisocial behaviour (and you can camp in the bins)
i can't remember who sent me this sign (was it brother ed ?). whoever it was. thank you !
living rainforest
we had a kezia and daddy day yesterday so we went to the living rainforest and then beal park. much fun was had by all
page 65 - please use wheelie bins
whilst spending my many hours at Paddington station the other night i spotted this numbered sign i hadn't seen before.
badly drawn boy (and tori amos?)
i was talking to my mum on the phone walking back to the train station yesterday when i spotted badly drawn boy outside the BBC radio studios. That may be tori amos next to him, but maybe not.
