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Dinner Plates

Have you ever seen such a spotless carpark? Clean enough to eat your dinner off. This was in Spain - I can't see NCP following the trend. They also do things like give you free parking if it's your birthday (conditions apply of course).

Beautiful Birds

A place to truss up your chickens.

Cheap as Chips

David Dickinson lives on... In fact the beautiful cut-glass decanter being held up is made entirely of plastic.

E's missing

Fine Railways Signs of Our Time

Regular mainline railusers will probably recognise this extensive complex information board that simply lights up with the word OFF when a train enters the platform. But it's new to me.

However, I am no better than Railtrack as my railway set in the loft hasn't seen much devlopment in the last couple of years. Something to do with PFI - the Private Finance Initiative which means that I had gone over budget according to my wife and that I should get the boiler fixed first.

Love Bags

I didn't know you coud buy them. Actually I am not sure what they are but they sound nice.

Invalid validity

I was looking at car number plates on reg-transfer's site and managed to get the delightful message:

Sorry INVALID is not available!Click here to search again.

and no, I hadn't actually typed in the word "invalid"

Underground Littter

The Tube guys have various rules about charities and where there representatives can stand etc. These rules are ignored pretty much or maybe they are more relaxed than I think they should be. Anyway, standing outside the tube entrance was a guy handing out leaflets. I don't want random information thrust at me as there's plenty of that happening all the time. So I had a bag in one hand and got my credit card out in the other ready to buy a ticket but he still offered me a leaflet. Of course I could have just refused or said no but I just looked away.

Inside the station, as you can see, the leaflets were just discarded and this happened all the way down the steps onto the platform. Nice one.

Fancy Dress

Where else can you mix Cowboys with Brides apart from a fnacy dress party? This photo was taken from the street through the window of a pub but most revellers were on the roads of St. Ives, Cornwall on New Year's Eve and it was great fun. The best costume was a Statue of Liberty outfit.

We hadn't planned on going but managed to get some bits on the morning to make sure we could join in.

The comination of New Year's Eve and fancy dress appears to put everybody in a really good mood. We should do it every month.