Walk to work
2007-04-14

Here it is, as promised, the image heavy post! And only three days late, too.

They aren't of my garden at all. These are photos of my walk to work, just in case you wanted to see a little bit of Notts. I took these photos a couple weeks ago, as you can see the weather has been nothing short of awesome lately. It's nice, but it is way too early. Summer is gonna be a scorcher, better go buy that water butt.

This is where the kid that was stabbed to death lived. It is about three blocks from me. Even though it happened well over a month ago, there are still flowers in this spot to this day.

As I move onto Mansfield road in the morning I walk past the Sherwood front of the British supermarket war. If this was the war in middle east, Tesco (on the right) would be the US Coalition of the willing and Londis (the green store on the left) would be Turkmenistan. Tesco is bright and shiny and has longer opening hours, but they also have those excruciatingly painful self serve tills that bark "Please put your item into the pay area" over and over at me until I want to smash someone in the fucking head. "It IS in the FUCKING PAY AREA, YOU STUPID MACHINE!!". Worst_invention_Ever. Viva la Londis revolucion!

The Sherwood shops in all their glory. I had to take this photo three times to try to keep the traffic out of the shot.

I laugh every time I walk past this place. The thought that must've gone into this sign only to have no one get it. I would've loved to have been on that discussion...

Chinese owner 1:"Hey let's call it Me N U, get it? Me and You, AND it spells M-E-N-U!"
Chinese owner 2:"I get you, but wait, let's put an umlaut over the 'N'. It will make it more obvious, not to mention ROCK AND ROLL. Hey, it worked for Mötley Crüe!"
Chinese owner 1:"Fucking genius."

"How to make your neighbourhood look like a ghetto in one easy step."

A shop that sells only chips, a bookie's and a double decker bus. Only a bulldog wearing a union jack sash and a top hat could make this photo more British.

Hey, look! Even Edmontonians are welcome in Nottingham.

Way to take a funny marketing idea and ruin it by spraying it with England stink.

One of the great things about England is that in this time of religious fundamentalism all over the world (Canada is getting really bad), the churches here are actually losing members. In a desperate attempt to woo them back, they erect dayglo signs. It's not working. There is even an old church downtown that has been converted into a bar--fantastic. Now if they could just get the mosques to fuck off...

The following photos are of my walk through forest fields:

Notice anything? Not a fucking soul. It's like this every morning. The world is going to hell in a handbasket due to global warming and yet people would rather sit in traffic when they could be walking through THIS every day. I know us idiot colonials don't give a shit about the environment with our big fat SUV's, but the English are supposed to know better. tut tut.

Yeesh, that was a lot more political than I had intended. It was supposed to be a happy little picture post, but I guess my crotchety-ness can seep even into these posts. oh well.