Duck or Grouse . . .

As a tall person the small country pubs, with their low beams and stonework in Somerset pose a slight problem to me. The King Alfred (a small pub in Burrowbridge) has a novel way of letting you know about the dangers . . .

A Load of . . .

Hmmm . . . I still strugle with the name of this restaurant! Came accross it in Turkey!



Need I say more I did'nt eat there . . .

Honesty in Thailand . . .

Another photo from my time in Thailand late last year.

BLUNT - i suppose!



The land of minimal (but harsh) rules & laws.

Igloo in East Dulwich . . .

During the cold snap I came across a group a people making an igloo on Goose Green (East Dulwich). They were using an old plastic box to compact the snow into, making blocks to use for the bulk of the build adding extra snow to fill the gaps.









Hats off to them I was inspired . . . . yet went home put the heating on and crashed out on the sofa for the rest of the day!

They followig day when in the warm getting ready for work I was watching the news and the igloo was reported on BBC Breakfast news. Apparently, the group of friends are from Serbia.

Keep warm during the cold snap . . .

When the snow hit yesterday (2nd Feb 2009) I wrapped up warm adding layers and layers upon hats and scarves only to venture out and to find the local council had used some of our council tax to install central heating on the streets.

Shame it did'nt work though as the city of London came to a stand still, and over the country over 6 million people had the day off due to several inches of snow. We must be the laughing stock of Europe - bet all the Polish people over here still went to work and wondered what all the fuss was about!

A message in the bog (a Thai bog) . . .

Says it all really . . .



Funnily enough I did'nt pull that night!

The pub is the hub . . .

As the festive season has just past here is a photo I took on entering one of my locals. Yes I did say when entering (I did a lot of entering pubs over the recent couple of weeks), because If I took it when leaving the pub the photo would have been pissed, like me!



The Pub certainly was my hub this festive season!

Cheers . . . . hic up . . .

Go straight . . .

Found this road sign in Patong, Phuket Island (Thailand). If you have been to this part of Thailand you will know it is renowned for its lady boys . . . . .



The photo says it all . . .

Inconsiderate animal keepers . . .

When in the country side I came accross this sign locating a dogs doings. Clearly a member of the village was not a happy bunny. Made me think about the state of London, for a start you could'nt put a stake in the ground due to the masses of concrete, secondly would anybody actually be bothered.



Just imgine the size of the stake needed for these horse doings I found in a subway.

Probably a Police horse, now that would be a sight. A Police officer de-mounting a horse to clear up after it! Hahaha!

Believe it or not . . .

. . . but yes this is a lampost with a tree that has become very attatched!

Glastonbury portaloo advice . . .

Having attended Glastonbury this year (which was excellent - mainly due to the weather) I had to use such toilets as in the photo below. Luckily as I was a trader at the festival and I was lucky enough not to have to share a portable toilet with the other tens of thousands, upon thousands of people as we had our own back stage toilets only used by the traders - Haha!



This portable toilet just made me laugh, trust me not many of them did! At the time I didn't need to tho!

Street art, the real thing . . .

A while back when out and about in London I came across several of these replica pieces of art on the street, this particular one was in the Soho/Covent Garden area. I think it was part of an exhibition run by a renowned gallery - a very good idea! The pieces of art stunned some people, they would stop take a look at the art work then look around as if not sure why or what was going on.



I stopped and watched the expressions on passes by for a few minutes and decided to get a shot of a few people, this one being my favourite, hand on hip and all. Hahaha.

This idea gives street art a whole new dimension!

Urban cow . . .

Ive recently been down in the countryside (Somerset), and as you can imagine I have seen plenty of the real deal when it comes to farm animals. Then coming back to London I bump into what at first I thought was a sheep, but alas it was a cow - yup an urban cow! It even gave me a slight moo . . .

Poor council grammer . . .

The correct term should be 'dogs must be on A lead'.
Come on cant these councils get anything correct? Oh sorry its not political is it!

Just a polite word . . . or not!

To make sense of this post check out my previous post (added on the 14th April 08).

If you have read the previous post you can clearly see from this new photo that the same sign was not taken well by whom ever it was aimed at!

Like I said before . . . very naive!

Just a polite word . . .

When walking down an alley near my home I came across this sign which was pinned to the fence of a house which backed onto the alley. I thought it was a very polite sign to street artists or general hooligans not to spray their aerosols on the fence as it may kill the home owners plants. Oh did I chuckle - As if the street artists or hooligans give a s**t.



Very naive!

Toke for the parish council . . .

I was in Bristol for the day and whilst on my journey I passed by this bus stop. Seemed to me like these OAP's were 'toke-ing for the parish copuncil' (toke-ing - as in smoking). Funny though because as I passed them there was no smell of illegal substances!

Life is a waste of time . . .

A message in a pub toilet - A good message, but nether the less not very responsible one eh!

No to war . . .

I was sitting in the pub waiting for a friend reading the paper which was filled with stories of war from all over the world so when I looked up to sup on my cold pint I laughed when I caught a glimpse of this guy wearing the following t-shirt.



In the end we got talking and by the end of the night (and a few to many beers) I lost control of all language!

Green Light For Smoking . . .

Was walking home from a night out in pubs, bars and a club in Cheltenham and I came up to a set of traffic lights that gave me the green light for a smoke - I found this funny as all night I had the difficulty of having a puff due to the smoking ban and terrible weather. The club even wanted to charge me to go outside and have a smoke. Can you believe it a bloody quid the bouncers wanted, having asked why they gave the response "Its to cover the extra doorman we have on to keep an eye on the smokers outside" - cheeky bas@#*?! . . . . .



What made me laugh even more was at the hospital the following day. I was just about to enter and attend an appointment when I came accross a swarm of doctors and nurses outside next to this wall, so I took a pic. The doctors and nurses didnt want to be in the pic, I did ask them but the refusal makes me think they feel guilty about something.



Gross eh - you think that doctors and nurses would know better!

Cheltenham coke habit - or is it?

Having recently spent a lot of my time down in Cheltenham I was ammused by finding curious amounts of white dusty powder all over the streets. Now either someone has a bad coke habit or the place is swarming in rats - and this is the councils answer to killing them off . . . What do you make of it?





Hmmm . . . . I am curious.
And no I did not take a sample for my own use . . . . but maybe I should have!

Tortured Winnie the Pooh!

Came accross this poor Winnie the Pooh bear . . . .



. . . pinned up and tortured eh, I wonder what he had done!

Trainers from the stone age

Nike go way back . . . . .

New website!

I am currently working on a new website - be sure to check it out!

http://www.urbanography.co.uk/

Ill start using my blog again soon, once my website is up and running smoothley.

Thanks.