Oobely-boo (this is misc')

Fun in toilets

lickerish — Sun, 22 May 2011 08:27:00 +0000

So yes. I find myself in Greenwich, not a stone’s throw from the the O2 Arena (The Dome). I mean that literally. I’m sat in a Costa coffee shop that is about 20 metres from it. Yes I can throw a stone 20 metres!
I had to use the toilet earlier so popped into Sainbury’s.
I really like the painted stone backdrop they have in the cubicles.

Well done that supermarket chain.

I noticed some mirrors on opposite walls and couldn’t resist taking a picture of multi-V.

Toilets can be such fun!

Run, run, run, run, run, run, run.

lickerish — Sat, 21 May 2011 18:03:51 +0000

Well, after being out of action since January this year with an assortment of issues and injuries centered around my calf I had my first real test today on my way back. This is very pleasing.

Following an ankle sprain and concomitant problems, ending in an infruriatingly slow healing achilles-tendinopathy, my wonderful physio Helen, suggested that I go for a ‘slow ten minute run’ last week to see how my calf holds up. I then did a 15 minute run a few days after and today I joined a squash group and played three hard games. My achilles held up very well and I came through it with no pain or niggles.

I could only manage three games as I’ve only done the two aforementioned runs in five months. Now it may be a little silly that I’ve dived straight in to play a game that puts enormous pressure on the achilles but Helen suggested that I should only do what I’m comfortable with and I was sure I could handle it.

I seem to be more vulnerable to the repititous action of running mile after mile rather than explosive exertion.

I know I’m going to wake up tomorrow with my thighs and right arm/shoulder (my racket arm) in pain but it’s a good pain

I haven’t been on my usual high-carb diet since January and I really should have waited another week before taking part in such punishing exercise but I’ve always been impatient when it comes to exercise.

I’m a happy V.

50 Pence…

lickerish — Fri, 20 May 2011 13:10:00 +0000

to spend a penny.

Yes well, when I first moved to London a little over three years’ ago the lavatories in Paternoster Square at St Pauls were 20 pence to use.
Then, lordy lorks, they went up to 30 pence.
Today on a lunchtime sojourn around St Pauls, I noticed that they’d gone up to an amazing 50 pence.
Man Alive!

Where there’s muck there’s brass

lickerish — Sat, 14 May 2011 20:41:46 +0000

A lovely solitary rose amongst some bins.

Mish-mash

lickerish — Fri, 13 May 2011 07:05:28 +0000

Some random pictures from the last week or so.

These are the ugliest lampposts I’ve ever seen

I decided to put giraffe outside, in his natural habitat.

Paperclip on a park bench in the early morning sun.

Om

lickerish — Thu, 12 May 2011 14:58:23 +0000

Nom nom…

Stop and smell the roses

lickerish — Tue, 10 May 2011 06:45:26 +0000

I did just that.

On a morning as beautiful as this, stepping off the beaten track to take in the scent of roses can be enormously rewarding.

Heavens above

lickerish — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:36:12 +0000

Well I came across this slightly off-putting but deeply amusing spangly Mary and Jesus whilst browsing around a charity shop.

I almost burst out laughing. Instead I stared for several seconds in total amazement before grabbing my camera and snapping the happy couple.

Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

JEBUS!

Penny!

lickerish — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 07:30:16 +0000

Woooo. Hello penny.
I’ve found 4p in two days. I’m in excellent money finding form.

Door

lickerish — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:41:06 +0000

Aww. Don’t be unhappy Mr. Handle. What can I do to cheer you up?