Donut's Daily Daguerreotype

Daguerreotype - (noun) an early photograph using a silvered plate and mercury vapour [named after L. Daguerre, French inventor, 1789-1851]

October 31, 2005

Metro

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It's clean, efficient, well-used, safe, good value for money and fast: London could learn a lot from Washington's Metro system. It misses out key neighbourhoods, but that's about the only complaint. Eating and drinking is not allowed to help keep it clean. For the most part people obey that rule, though I saw a few tourists slurping coffee.

October 30, 2005

Bethesda

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From my hotel window: Bethesda, the suburb that thinks it's a city.

October 29, 2005

Smithsonian

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The National Museum of National History on the Mall.

October 28, 2005

Capital of the free world

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The view down Pennsylvania Avenue towards the Capitol building.

October 27, 2005

Runway

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Manchester airport in the sunshine. Yes, that's Manchester and sunshine in the same sentence.

October 26, 2005

Directions

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...or may be over there...

October 25, 2005

New shoes...

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Hopefully these won't leak. I hate wet feet.

October 24, 2005

End of the earth

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[From the archive]

Doesn't get much more remote than this. On the steppe in Mongolia: camel, goats and ger (the traditional Mongolian house). October 2001.

October 23, 2005

Stop moving about...

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[From the archives] An attempt to capture action at the Tate Modern Gallery.

October 22, 2005

Letter from Parliament

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Dear [fill in the blank].

Thank you for your letter of [date] about [fill in the blank]. I can't be arsed to have an opinion, so I've sent it on to [the relevant Government Minister] who will have one of [his/her] civil servants draft a non-reply.

Yours, Tessa Jowell MP.

October 21, 2005

Lunch

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Mmmmm! Pret a Manger.

October 20, 2005

Working from home today

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The phone is my office.

October 19, 2005

Looks like rain, deer

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You can just about see the deluge that hit me as I left the office.

October 18, 2005

Red sky in the morning...

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...sailor take warning.

October 17, 2005

Caught in the web

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This morning's dew bringing out the best in this spider's web.

October 16, 2005

Brushing every day

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Fights cavities and stops me from losing any more teeth.

October 15, 2005

Live from Champion Hill

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Action from today's match between Dulwich Hamlet and Barking & East Ham. More photos here.

October 14, 2005

On the train home.

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Passengers reflected in the train window.

October 13, 2005

Statutory posting

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Some fat bloke, who's eyes are so bad that he can't focus anymore, struggling to think of a good photo for his fotoblog.

October 12, 2005

Art or social commentary?

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The park I walk through on the way to work is popular with street people - those that sleep rough. But, that still doesn't explain the bed sitting in the bandstand area. Later on the bed, still sitting there unannounced and unexplained, got very wet in the autumn rain.

October 11, 2005

Aeroport de Bruxelles

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Always worth a stop in the Brussels Airport business lounge on the way back home.

October 10, 2005

Brussels

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Through the peephole in m hotel room.

October 09, 2005

Tomatoes

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These little fellers will go in my chutney.

October 08, 2005

A visit to my parents

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Young Ali and his Grandma.

October 07, 2005

Off to the landfill

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I know. It's a total waste; all that packaging.

October 06, 2005

Historic London

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Working in an "historic" part of London, we get a whole load of London walks down my street. Ghost tours, Adam architecture freaks, crime nuts, people trying to find the River Fleet.

October 05, 2005

Lou Rawls

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When you suffer as much as I do, you really appreciate soft toilet paper.

October 04, 2005

Balham, gateway to the south

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A rather blurry, but atmospheric picture taken at the bus stop next to Balham station waiting for the No. 316 home.

October 03, 2005

Back to work

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Darkness descends in Central London. Autumn is upon us. No sight of the solar eclipse either.

October 02, 2005

Dig!

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Digging the garden today, I managed to snap the handle of my 10 year guaranteed Spear & Jackson fork.

October 01, 2005

Last Saturday: I was here...

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Standing on the ramparts of Monteriggione, a fortified hilltop village in Tuscany, Italy.