Time for another look at all the photos that have been gathering in my iPhone. Despite the fact that I haven't left our house for the past nine days, I have a stash that accumulated before I came down with Covid. Frankly, if I don't blog them, I'm going to be writing about vacuuming again -- and nobody wants that.
First, I found this interesting whiteboard in the North Greenwich tube station the last time I was down that way. At first I thought it was Ed Sheeran song lyrics, but looking more closely I see it's actually a poem making references to Sheeran's songs: "Nancy Mulligan" and "Galway Girl" are both song titles, for example. Apparently @allontheboard are a couple of guys who work for Transport for London (TFL) and decorate whiteboards throughout the tube system.
A little sticker (or something?) I spotted in the mud on a footpath. A smiley insect of some kind, apparently?
One glove, one shoe -- both lost. Did their owner hop away waving one bare hand?
These are in the window of a high-end Italian furniture shop on Finchley Road -- a shop that is closing, coincidentally. If anybody wants a fancy glass globule I can probably get it for you cheap!
These discarded wooden frames were in boxes marked "STD canvas" with the name of an art supplier in Blackpool. I'm guessing they're frames that an artist would stretch canvas over to paint? There were quite a few of them, and I hated seeing them all in the trash. Too bad someone didn't Freecycle them.
In case you're not sure what a positive Covid test looks like -- this is it. (A negative one wouldn't show that line next to the T.)
When I was walking in the cemetery not too long ago I came across this discarded (and muddy) grocery bag -- which wouldn't be unusual except it's a very old design. As long as we've been in London, Waitrose has used bags with a green pattern and lettering. This red-and-black look must be a decade old, anyway. Further evidence that plastic bags hang around a long time!
(And look, you can buy a fresh one on eBay for £1.99!)
Finally, another found item in someone's trash -- a glittery purple toilet seat! It would take a very special bathroom to pull off that look.
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I wonder how many travelers have time and inclination to stop and read that white board? I was just this morning wondering what happened to my other shoe and mitten. I didn’t have them when I got home one night. Also, I’ve been searching for affordable fancy glass globules, stretcher frames, and a purple glitter toilet seat.
I'd be all over the globules for sure, but getting them here would be expensive and tricky. "Someone hopped away on one foot, waving" made me laugh out loud. And the toilet seat? Nothing illustrates 'we're all different' than that photograph of a purple glitter toilet seat. That being said, as for me and my house? No.
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You have an eye for photographing things others might not notice or ignore...Yhat purple toilet seat is certainly unique...
I would be after those canvas frames. I have my own roll of primed canvas that I use to stretch over frames for my wife. I think the toilet seat would be a great practical joke to play on someone.
I'd actually like a glass globule.
I am stunned by what people so casually throw away.
That grocer's bag is the reason we don't do plastic anymore, but used our own bags.
I'm kinda liking the glitter toilet seat but Carlos may have something to say if I bought one!
If that art material were in my dumpster I'd quick do a Freecycle message describing place etc, and they'd be gone before the garbage men pick up. I've rescued loads of stuff that way, from an entire toy kitchen to bicycles.
I love the glass bubbles and urgently need them, but a little impractical for shipping I think.
And there's a chance of hearing about vacuuming? I don't think I can handle the excitement.
Hope you guys both get well and stay well, soon.
That is an alien goldfish cracker! I love the toilet seat, but I wonder if it would be hard to make sure it's clean...
Your house must be vacuumed to the point of being pristine!
The glass globules are nice indeed but the glitter toilet seat- Jesus. One of those things that makes me think of what people in the future will find in landfills and ask, "WTF"? We are destroying the planet for things like that. And plastic bags, of course.
What a great whiteboard idea, though i don't love that people contribute such art and then it is ephemeral. But perhaps that is the metaphor. And that purple glitter toilet seat, good Lord.
You could make a whole daily blog of trash photos!
the wooden canvas frames!!! what are they NOT thinking??? Dumbasses.
And I thought Trump's gold toilet was over the top! Still positive or was that an earlier test? And yes, frames to stretch canvas on. Those things are not cheap.
Oh my, I can't even imagine that purple toilet seat. It would seem to be easy to lose a glove but a shoe? I would surely miss a shoe right away. Those frames are a complete waste. Hopefully somewhere along the garbage chain, someone rescued them. If nothing else, the wood looks useful.
An interesting collection of random photos, Steve. I'm pretty sure the person who left the one glove and one shoe thought, "Quick, Steve's coming, get the display ready!"
I have 4 Covid tests and will perhaps use one before they expire. Hopefully not. I love looking at those glass globules but have always wondered what people do with them. My mom calls such things dust collectors.
I really loved your photos today, but I always do. Especially the Ed Sheeran's poem, sadly the writing was too small for me to read and even with a magnifing glass. But I still enjoyed trying. My sight is fading faster than I like.
I can't believe someone tossed those frames. Did they not have customers that they could offer them the frames? Just a thought and perhaps maybe they actually had no customers and that is why they are discarded like trash.
In my world only the highest Goddesses would use purple lol. Since I am not a full fledged Goddess, I would have to pass on the purple glitter toilet seat.
But if I could, I would most certainly grab those glass baubles. I would have a very special use for them. I hope that this Covid leaves us soon, but somehow, I think that we are going to have to find a way to live with it, which is just sad.
Hang in there and stay well. Hugs and have a great day.
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It's surprising that the store would dumpster those stretcher frames. They cost the earth. Hopefully someone saw them and took them home.
Maybe I'm just stupid, but what does STD stand for in reference to canvas stretchers? Of course all I can think of is "sexually transmitted disease", preventing me from thinking of anything else!
I have a small Murano glass globule, but it became one of those dust catchers someone mentioned above, so it's stashed away in a drawer.
And unfortunately, I do know what a positive Covid test looks like. 😒
Those glass baubles look like the old fashioned Japanese fishing floats that I remember from the late 1050s living on Okinawa. We collected a few as souvenirs and I'm sure one of my siblings has them now.
They're standard stretcher bars.
I don't have the inclination to read it and I took a picture of it! (I skimmed it, but only enough to realize what it is.)
Yeah, mailing globules overseas would probably not be worthwhile. They ARE kind of cool but I bet they're ridiculously expensive, even discounted.
Isn't that wild?
I wish I'd salvaged the frames and given them to the art department at school. Unfortunately I was walking the dog and didn't really have any way to carry them.
I am continually astonished by what I find in the trash. And yeah, I kind of dig that toilet seat too! We also use our own grocery bags.
Oh, I should have done that (Freecycle). I think the trash was due to come that morning, though, so I would have had to pull them out of the dumpster and stash them somewhere.
Alien goldfish -- LOL!
It's crazy the junk our society produces and then discards. Completely insane.
I'm amazed how quickly the house gets dirty when we're both home!
Yeah, I think the ephemeral nature of the art is part of the charm.
That pretty much IS my blog! LOL
I wish I'd saved them. I just couldn't manage it at that moment.
That was a test from early on in my infection. My tests are almost negative now -- very, very faint.
The more I write about those canvas frames the guiltier I feel!
Ha! They see me coming and set up an intriguing tableau. Maybe I'm on Candid Camera?
We have to test ourselves routinely for work purposes, so we take them twice a week.
I must confess even I didn't read the entire Sheeran poem. The frames were in the trash at an apartment complex, not a shop -- so presumably someone bought them and then didn't use them.
What am I thinking? We are overdue for an Olga photo, aren't we?
I wish I'd known that and I would have worked harder to rescue them myself. I actually wish I'd given them to our school art department but I just didn't think of it at the time. (I wasn't even sure what they were, to be honest.)
Yeah, as Boud said, I assumed STD meant "standard." Maybe you can hang that glass globule, or put it on a windowsill?
Yes! I've seen those too. They're very cool!
Nice photos. I've never seen a purple glitter toilet seat. I know someone who would have loved to spot those frames in the garbage, he would have carried them home right away.
A purple glitter toilet seat. That can't be comfortable and we all know that glitter never dies. Love seeing what you see with your photographer's eye!
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