Covent Garden

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Spot the tourist.

Pictures and stuff

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The National Gallery: culture, gift shop and a nice cafe.

Rust

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Time to get out the wire brush and metal paint.

Fixing the gate

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My hands were numb after this little effort in 5 deg C and frozen north wind.

Photo Friday - Vanity

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One of my neighbours loves himself.

Getting your kicks

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To Trafalgar Square at lunchtime to win a rugby shirt kicking the ball through the hole.

More here.

Flock of seagull sh!t

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Decorating Trafalgar Square along with those rats with wings - pigeons.

St Martin's in the Field

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About as close to church as I get.

Yes, this man is breakdancing

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...outside the National Gallery.

Smile!

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People posing in Trafalgar Square.

Saturn

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Another sky picture - at night this time and through a telescope - and another picture filched from my family - my bro. He's got a nice rig set up at his place and they don't suffer too much from light pollution. Pretty good shot, don't ya think?

Contrails

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In the South London dusk.

Photo Friday - Pink

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Pink. Audi TT. Hmmm.

Sorry it's a bit blurry. I was in a hurry. I'd just had an experience with the office burgular alarm. And, it was dark.

Tunes

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Who needs an iPod? I got me 5 year old MD player which doesn't close properly and eats batteries. It's survived hitting the pavement at Dulles Airport and hours of abuse.

Words about music

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This month's The Wire magazine just popped through the letter box, with free CD of computer art. Free-jazz guitarist Derek Bailey, R.I.P.

Only drug dealers have more than one mobile phone

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Need some weed, man?

Wembley stadium

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Teh old stadium with its famous twin towers is no more. Now the skyline around north London is dominated by the new steel arch crowning the new stadium. Another one of the big building projects in London. Unfortunately this one looks like being late and over budget. The builder, Multiplex, is in severe financial straights partly as a result of the cost overuns. Multiplex also built the Sydney Olympic Stadium White Elephant.

(photo by mrs donut) - more here.

Cosmos

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"Franz on the 35..."

Venti americano mistake

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Stopped for coffee and a sweet thing at Waitrose supermarket on the way to see my parents at the nursing home. Guy at the cafe was "time and motion" challenged. What should take two movements and 30 seconds, took four and two minutes.

The coffee was scalding hot, but at least had flavour. The coffee I mistakenly asked for at the home tasted like dishwater.

Photo Friday - Success

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My Midget League baseball team was lousy before I went on vacation. Without me, they battled through the playoffs - I think every team qualified - and made it to the league final. By that time, I'd go back from vacation.

I got a trophy despite contributing to a loss in that final.

Making a spectacle of myself (sorry)

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New Year's resolution fulfilled: reading glasses.

No parking

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Some bigwig was speaking at the Royal Society for the Arts, so the police stopped parking all day in the local streets.

New Labour, new laptop

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My office enters the 21st century. Pity my poor work colleagues. They get new boxes, but keep the same crappy monitors.

Big sh!t

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There are currently three of the largest building sites in Europe in the London area - Heathrow Airport Terminal 5, Wembley Stadium and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL). Gilbert Scott's masterpiece, St Pancras Station, is the terminus for CTRL. Here, the famous clock tower competes with a tower crane.

D-I-Y part 2

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Oh-oh! The drill's come out.

D-I-Y part 1

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Fixing a broken light switch. The casing wouldn't unscrew so out came the hammer.

Photo Friday: Panorama

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Approaching Petersburg, Alaska on the "Blue Canoe" (the Alaska State Ferry). May 1999.

Go banana!

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What it says on the tin.

Speccie

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No good. I can't focus anymore.

Move over, Lance

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I loved that chopper.

Denver Boot

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Well, something to make me smile on the first day back to school work. Two telephone company vans wheelclamped.

Pete as a nipper (again)

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Architect at work: on the beach.

Happy New Year

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Cheers!