My current favourite:
"You taxi-hailing media wanker"
Courtesy of Jody, directed at Tim.
26.6.08
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19.6.08
Olympic Posters: Canada
At the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood there's a very good show of Olympic posters through the modern age including this detail from the Montreal Olympics. (Full poster here). I was standing in front of it with my niece Betty. She looked at it shaking her head and said "That's not right." I'm not sure if she means the kid doing gymnatics with the man dressed only in green underpants or the general air of desperation that pervades these badly lit, badly shot and badly styled pieces of 70s memorabilia
4.6.08
Bird Scarer in the fig tree
My father-in-law, Egidio, makes these fantastic bird scarers to put in the fig tree to stop the birds eating the figs. The figs don't get eaten but I think it's probably the grumpy looking man constantly peering out the window giving them "male occhi" (literally 'bad eye') that keeps them away rather than the plywood cats with luminous green eyes and red triangles for noses.
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