March 21, 2004
Bowl Me Over
We went bowling which normally includes 1 boy so disinterested and walking away before his bowl even reaches the skittles, one bowl hitting the bar because it was bowled too early, several boys jumping up and down and falling on the floor, one near miss with a dropped bowling ball, lots of noise, a fight to get away from the arcade, a visit to the Pizza Restaurant to have some food and draw and the table cloth (and pull some daft faces) etc.
This is the first picture of Nathan with specs. Poor bugger. He likes them though which is good. He is has a Good Attitude and long may it last.
March 04, 2004
More Flowers
I recently posted a couple of aesthetically pleasing pictures and here's another one. This is taken at the flower stall by the tube station. Notice how The Finger makes a welcome return? In this case it is the strangely rubberised hand of Simon who bravely runs the stand in all weathers.
By the way I think the flowers are Gerberas. Or Gerbils or something like that.
December 25, 2003
Christening Slip
The slipway that was being built is notionally finished apparently and it was thought appropriate to Christen it on Christmas day. It's a welcome return of The Finger as well.
Trouble is the celebration party didn't turn up on time so we took over and had our own celebration complete with speeches
They did turn up eventually though...
There were about 20 or 30 people there although they were hiding from the drizzle.
Ryan and Nathan had a chance to do some skimming and Ryan found a crab which he was insistent that we eat (we didn't).
October 30, 2003
Glove
Funky Dave collects photos of gloves. Well it keeps him off the streets I suppose. Not. Here is a nice autumnal glove that I found in Leicester yesterday. It was the rough part of the main high street so it was giving me the finger.
October 27, 2003
Mellow Yellow Cello
We went to a wedding a few weeks ago and they a had a string quartet in a gallery. It must be all the rage because we went to another one on Saturday with the same idea. The last one was at W S Gilbert's old house which was interesting. This one was at the Law Society and was fairly extravagent (the bride wore a $10,000 Suzie Wong dress and I wore a 1962 suit with patches on the elbows). I recorded some of the music.
Here is the string quartet dressed as a shubbery.
They had a some beautiful instruments
and some old swingers
She's out of focus due to the speed of her dancing.
And here is Regina (that's pronounced Regeena) using The Finger which is always nice.
October 12, 2003
Chair RIP
The collapsed chair has gone to that resting place in the sky. I only hope it was placed there in memory of someone - like Arthur Negus for instance (sorry for the poor content on the link but its difficult finding a photo of wonderful Arthur)
Next to the space vacated by the chair, ably helped by The Shadow which must be a relative of The Finger, are some fine examples of English chair building:
October 09, 2003
ID Cards
Despite the back-lash against photo ID cards there are a lot of people who carry them. Sadly the photos on the cards are about 20 years out of date as we see here. Nice of The Finger to join in again.
September 27, 2003
Toilet trouble
Luckily for us all these day people put clear signs on things. In the toilet in the local Greek restaurant, The Lantern an establishment which is otherwise pretty low on merit, they have these nice drawings on everything. Notice The Finger is there again to help you identify the part of the photo to look at. Unfortunately there was no sign on the door so I had to wait for the next bloke before being let out.
September 26, 2003
Identity Parade
Do you recognise these young funky people? ID cards are funny things. We need to design ones for our company so I thought I'd run a competition. The winning design will win a watch...more of which later.
Nice finger pointing don't you think?
