things you have noticed.

[IdleRich]

Apologies for the photos which may have fallen below my usual unimpeachable standards, that was, in part, because I was driving as I tried to take the pics, but more than that, it was because I was simply awestruck by the quiet grandeur of these enormous beasts and, yes, I did have a lump in a throat and a tear in my eye as I thought about what precisely they meant.

 

[woops]

looks like the spirit of old england guided your camera hand in this instance

 

[IdleRich]

Found this weird and slightly sinister black, rubber figure.

Is it a toy, or some kind of fetish thing? What does it attach to and why?

Am I gonna star in some kind of modern version of Whistle And I'll Come To You?

 

[IdleRich]

Just noticed a man walking a pig in Graca. I took some very bad photos but they won't upload so you will have to take my word for it.

 

[luka]

ive seen someone walking a goat in Paris so i totally beleive you. it's normal behaviour on the continent.

 

[IdleRich]

It reminded me of surrealist author Gérard de Nerval who used to walk a lobster - and then Liza asked how long a lobster can survive outside water and I thought that was a good question so I looked it up, 48 hours apparently. Which is OK I guess but I can hardly imagine the lobster was like a dog begging to be walked... I feel it was kinda sacrificed on the altar of surrealism. A bit cruel.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Saw some guy sat outside the bar the other day with a fucking massive parrot, untethered, sat on his shoulder and nobody batted an eyelid.

 

[luka]

i always wondered about them shitting on you.

 

[Benny Bunter]

It was one of those huge red, blue and green things from the Amazon or somewhere. 🦜

 

[jenks]

Two lads speeding on 29 inch MTBs fully balaclava’d up steal a blokes phone out his hand - followed by the bloke chasing them. Obviously was a shit phone cos they just tossed it on the ground and rode away.

 

[woops]

It was one of those huge red, blue and green things from the Amazon or somewhere. 🦜

Seen this in Stamford hill

 

[jenks]

Seen this in Stamford hill

There’s a bloke in Southend that wanders the high street with two great big fuck off owls on a wagon he pulls behind him.

 

[woops]

There’s a bloke in Southend that wanders the high street with two great big fuck off owls on a wagon he pulls behind him.

i said i was just reading about alfred jarry, he used to have owls as "pets" in his decrepit flat, purely in the interests of decadent poet

 

[IdleRich]

Saw some guy sat outside the bar the other day with a fucking massive parrot, untethered, sat on his shoulder and nobody batted an eyelid.

There is a flat near me always has a parrot on the balcony and a we walked past Liza happened to say "Ola" as she might to a cat or something and it instantly replied "ola" - I guess not that surprising really but at the time it was so perfect.

 

[IdleRich]

There’s a bloke in Southend that wanders the high street with two great big fuck off owls on a wagon he pulls behind him.

Wow. I'd love to see that.

 

[jenks]

Wow. I'd love to see that.

There was a great novel by Nicola Barker about Canvey that involved a bloke having his fingers eaten by owls - it always made me think of the Southend owl guy.

 

[IdleRich]

I think they are among the most beautiful birds. There is an owl I see sometimes on the rooftops near us at night and it always takes my breath away.

 

[william_kent]

One thing I noticed on my only visit to Tokyo were the girls with an owl perched on their shoulder, advertising "owl cafes", mainly because they had owl shit stains all down the back of their onesies

 

[IdleRich]

OK it works now.

 

[woops]

I can hardly imagine the lobster was like a dog begging to be walked... I feel it was kinda sacrificed on the altar of surrealism. A bit cruel.

a bit cruel and a bit theatrical perhaps