Archives for February 2010
365: And finally…
Sorting through these photos, I’ve just realised that my 365 project ends today!. A whole year of photos taken of, about or during each day. When travelling to places new it’s been a breeze to find something to shoot; when spending weeks in the office it’s a lot harder. There are a couple of gaps that I need to go back and fill (whole sets of trips to the Olympic Stadium and Normandy), which I’ll update in the next few days, but aside from that I’m done.
So it’s appropriate that the last picture should be of one of the greatest constants in the past year: The Selkirk Pub Quiz. After dozens of mid-table performances 2010 has been a great year so far, with two firsts and a second place. That’s almost fifty free bottles of beer! If that’s a metaphor for the next 365 days then the future’s looking pretty good.
365: Train describer cretinery
Much discussed elsewhere, Tooting Bec now has its own spectacularly misplaced next train indicator. On the plus side (i) I think it’s temporary, (ii) I stand at the south end of the platform so this doesn’t affect me and (iii) the southbound platform now has an indicator too. Tooting Broadway, here I come!
365: Two little boys had two little toys
Although I suspect they couldn’t have afforded this lot.
365: The sun does sometimes shine on London
Particularly here, on Mount Street Gardens.
365: Steamin’
I don’t know how you chose to spend your St Valentine’s Day, but much of mine was spent truding for 19+ miles around South West London. Glad I didn’t get stuck on this fresh tarmac, roadrunner style.
365: Miga the Mascot
Is Miga male, female or simply a spirit? These fridge magnets and a matching book mark were the only things worth buying in the official Olympic outlet. The rest was tat – expensive tat, of course, but with an over-reliance on man made fibres.
365: Quatchi the Mascot
Here’s Quatchi – I’m not sure that ear warmers are the traditional dress of Canadian native peoples, but I’d be excited to be proved wrong.
365: Sumi the Mascot
In honour of the Vancouver (and Whistler!) 2010 Olympics, three Olympic mascots as currently stuck to my fridge. Firstly, Sumi – a cheery little fella.
365: Shite Photoshop
I suspect there’s a whole Flickr group for this type of abomination. The old Tower Records/ Virgin / Zaavi store on Picadilly Circus is being reopened as, so far as I can tell, a high end jumble sale. The hoardings indicate just how good it’s going to be. Admire how the graphic artist has combined a picture of the BFI Imax, some stock photography of people crossing an (American?) street, and some careful distorting of a neon sign.
365: The Wheatsheaf: what now?
An urgent bulletin for my Australian-based reader: word on the street is that The Wheatsheaf has gone into administration and may soon close. Given that there’s been a pub here for hundreds of years (since the surrounding area was fields, hence Wheat Sheaf) this is a sad state of affairs. I know of at least one operator who’s keen to turn this into a gastropubbish sort of place. Good news for me and my middle class chums, but where are the hard core drinkers of Tooting Bec to go?
Watch this space.
