Buffet lunch at our favourite Indian restaurant. Fun and filling. And no burgers.
The Unit. Day 61
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Category Archives: photography
Demonstration
Baffled streets
Walked up Cornmarket to catch the bus home and came across this crowd. And a new version of the statue geezer… Momentary bafflement, then time to move on.
Waiting for the train
Some mornings I walk along to the station next to where I work to buy some lunch. And photograph this space. I love the light, the patterns and what people are doing here. Spectacularly compelling. Well for me, anyway. But then I bloody love railway stations.
Choice, Bond and bus tickets
Rang the Unit this morning to see if LB wanted to come to town with us and have some nosh out. He’d been to the farm on Friday and had been quite chilled over the weekend.
“Maybe. Maybe not,” was the answer. This means no. I rang back a bit later to see if he wanted us to get him anything.
“No, thank you,” he said to the staff member relaying the question.
“Can you ask him if he wants a t-shirt or a dvd, or anything?”
The answer was “DVD please.”
Rich, Tom and I went into town. Tom started chatting about when we’d gone to watch Skyfall with LB. I’d forgotten, but Tom remembered how LB had sat patiently in the dark waiting for the bright daylight fight scenes so he could read his bus ticket. Hilarious. Kind of.
There’s something here about choice and constraint. But also about difference and tensions around making sense of our lives and the social world we live in. I still think of LB as an unlikely ethnographer, but that doesn’t help us understand how he makes sense of his life. This remains a mystery really.
May Day, Magnolia and Magdalene Bridge
No buses across Magdalene Bridge this morning as it was closed to traffic for May Day celebrations. So it was a beautiful walk from St Clements, up the High Street. Past revellers on their way home.
A rare ‘Who will buy?’ morning.
Carfax, colour, sunshine and bubble gum
Carfax was a lively old space this morning. Sunshine, laughter, chatter and then a loud shout; “Oi! Stop eating that bubble gum!” The chunky hound under scrutiny assumed a “Who me?” expression. Soaking up the sunshine.
Shiny buses and spooky mannequins
Some photos from today’s outing. A museum full of buses, brilliant colours and an amazing selection of mannequins. Overall; a bit spooky, very shiny and more than a little nerdy.
Pap street, pop stars and the guitar guy
Wandering around town earlier, with Rich. Camera in hand. Sun shining.
“Anticipation“, I said, cheerfully. “That’s one of the things I learnt on the street photography course.”
“Mmmmm“, said Rich. Most likely boredy bored with the whole street photography thing. “There’s some big cameras over there look“, he said, pointing towards three men standing together and staring down Cornmarket.
“Oh yeah,” I said, snapping some long haired guy with a violin and his girlfriend. Totally oblivious to the unfolding drama.
“Something’s going on. They’re looking for someone. Look.”
“Eh? Who?”
“Those men with the big cameras….”
And they were. Paparazzi. In Oxford? A huge Chinese pop star apparently. Though I didn’t see him. We did catch up with guitar guy on the way back though. Circles of time and place, and all that.
Reflections, symmetry and happenings
Came out of Charing Cross tube this morning to drenched streets and dazzling sunshine. Whoa. Must have completely missed a downpour. So pleased I was early enough for a cheeky little detour in Trafalgar Square before my meeting started. Nearly four hours later, the streets were dry and the sun had disappeared. But there were still interesting happenings. And the splendour of Paddington station to catch the train home. From platform 9.
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