Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

Its a tradition, or an old charter, or something, that white vans and lorries have to have the slogan “I wish my wife was this dirty” written in their dirt with a finger.   The one exception to this was a van I saw in London once with the disturbing variation “I wish my nan was [...]

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No apologies for returning to the topic of shopping trolleys, or taking photos of them.
I spotted this while out canvassing this morning. Back in October we (a gang of Labour party members) went round the Courts estate of Broadfield rounding up abandoned trolleys and returning them to the shops.
I think I can [...]

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First day back at work today after the non-event that was jury service, so at lunchtime I popped into the new bookshop which opened while I was off - Crockatt & Powell (The place Lisa keeps writing about.)
It is a great improvement on the old place, which was a boarded-up grocers. It looks a lot [...]

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On Monday night I gave in and ordered a Fuji E550 digital camera from Amazon. While I was doing that, I looked at some of the accessories which were available on what they call Amazon Marketplace.
This is other people selling goods through the Amazon front end, but sometimes cheaper. There were [...]

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Another lunchtime walk today. This time we headed East, across Westminster Bridge Rd, past the Eurotunnel lines and through Bishops Park, coming out by Lambeth Palace, and then back along the river, past County Hall and through Waterloo station. A few sights along the way…
I don't know what this [...]

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I am pretty sure this is the work of Banksy. I like it. Its quietly subversive, and makes us smile whenever we walk past it, which is most days as its between the office and the cafe.

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