There are some trees, some houses and...
Quietish day.
Things I saw out of the window a short time ago:
12.23: no-one.
12.24: woman, mousey hair, petite, going left to right.
Blonde woman with mobile phone, left to right across road.
Short balding man carrying, improbably, a stripey yellow and black sign. Left to
right
12.25: Man in suit, pin stripe, right to left. Oh, three men at once there, right to left all
at once. Only noticed a white shirt.
12.26: Anxious looking woman in specs clutching a folder. Nice blue jumper. Left to
right.
Man with the sign has walked back, on this side of the road.
12.27:Man in stripey t shirt right to left. Oh and a flurry of others right to left. This is
more tricky than it seems. Had better stop. People are suggesting bits of work
to do.
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You'll get no sympathy here. If we had work to do, would we be reading this?
Nothing to say - just wanted to be the first to comment.
go on - complain about this post
Very atmospheric writing...
What passes my window.
12.51 - nothing
12.52 - nothing
12.53 - a sparrow
12.54 - horse neighs
12.55 - sound of 'ouch' as maintenance man hits his thumb instead of the wooden stave.
12.56 - Jenny the dog.
I work on an estate in the middle of the Hampshire countryside. Feel very jealous of your view!
Not much point in having a blog if you just repeat what's in the newsletter! Come on man, pull yourself together.
Window?????
View????
I'm working in the wrong building....
Think I'll be professionally annoyed (just as Eddie asked us to be) that the blog is just an extract from today's round-robin. At least in the blog he could have described the goings on indoors, rather than the through the window view in the round-robin.
While I'm at it, imagine the chaos if things get exciting, will Eddie start a third, or a forth blog in a day?
Black shoes, Stephen, leader of STROP, may I hop on a bus to Pluto (and I'm not a politician).
SB2
This is almost exactly the same as the email.
I have a building site outside my window. We have a game of "Work out what that item is" when new parts of the building appear on site.
Quite fun watching them "make good" with a large sledgehammer
Huh - thought you were supposed to set us a good example Eric? Aren't we supposed to be going all serious and philosophical on you? How can we do that if you are stooping to our level?
Can't think of any more questions at the moment (thank goodness).
If we are still playing the Game, then this SB 5.
Who won yesterday, or is it cumulative? (Goody another question there)
btw I can't see anyone out of my windows but I can see my dog - Sam not Pluto
Black shoes more than welcome. The number e bus goes right past the front door.
What I can see through my (home) office window.
13.01 - nothing
13.02 - nothing
13.03 - nothing
13.04 - nothing
13.05 - wondered about opening the curtains.
13.06 - nothing
13.07 - huge slide in a very small and untidy garden
13.08 - nothing, I've closed the curtains again
I used to have a webcam you know !!
Tim.C
(#8)
If and when you see the man with the stripey sign again, could you ask him where he got it from please?, I want one...
Wow nothing to post, but I've just done a refresh and everythings gone again !!
This, apparently, should be post #5
After:
1.
* At 12:50 PM on 30 Aug 2006,
* Colin Jackson wrote:
2.
* At 12:50 PM on 30 Aug 2006,
* katie wrote:
3.
* At 12:54 PM on 30 Aug 2006,
* Jezetha wrote:
4.
* At 12:58 PM on 30 Aug 2006,
* Chrissie L wrote:
#5 !!!! at 13.20
I'm glad to see my licence fee is going towards luxuriant extras like windows. I haven't had an office with a window for 14 years...
For those like me, with workplaces without provision for defenestration, a description like the one above is like manna from heaven (or at least Radio 4 which is virtually the same thing).
Keep up the good non-work!
Useful information that also serves as a finiancial barometer; if I see people walking past my window we probably just had a stock market crash.
*from the pleasant 23rd floor*
like the strap line thingy today.
I see we still have no picture of Rupert to throw darts at. Is this really too much tor a devoted listenership to ask?
why is it improbable for a short bald man to be carrying a black and yellow striped sign? It's not exactly Pinteresque is it?
I was going to say something other than Pinteresque but the memory has let me down again, what is the name of that 20th C Belgian artist who painted pictures of people stadning on ironing boards and who had only one eye and so on. Not quite so outlandish as Dali but what I think of as a close relative in art terms?
So was it the arch, round or square window then? I think PM listeners should be told.
Passing the window:
Pigeon (left to right)
Pigeon poo (up to down) (be a bit worried if it was down to up)
Window-cleaner (not stopping, forgot to pay his bill)
Leaf (up, down, wooooooo, around and around... sleepy, very sleepy)
ZZZZZzzzzz
Eric is using economies of scale - same stuff in newsletter as blog. We're not getting value for money though.
Could have spent the time more usefully putting another photo up.
All I can see from the window is into the office downstairs.... If I lean back almost to the point of falling off the chair I can just about make out the car park. Oh to work somewhere more exciting....
SB13
Well, i don't have anything interesting to say other than the little technical thingy which makes the comments counter work isn't working as it looks like no-one has commented (I was surprised to see the "zero" but when I clicked on comments here you all were, busy chatting away) .... so perhaps the Webmaster is gazing out of the window too?
Onwards and somewhere, as someone once said.
Eddie,
You a perv, or what?
It just came to me - Magritte.However since you can't really say magrittesque perhaps Pintersque was the better option anyway.
I just saw a massive white cloud pass my window - from a windy South Norfolk village called Ketteringham (near Lotus the car people)
You have a window?
Some eccentric formatting (line breaks particularly) in this post, Mr Muir. Especially when you write "left to right". Maybe your blog needs a sub-editor?
Not that I'm complaining, or anything.
Well, you've seen more people than me today, and I work in a "tourist site" in France. Which one of us should be worried?
Out my window:
From the other side:
Eat yer hearts out.
xx
ed
At 1:11 Stephen stated that the number e bus goes past. Is this the mathematical constant e?
If so what bus company services your area and do they have any other routes named after mathematical items? i, j dy/dx, Pi etc
Afternoon all, glad to see the usual suspects returning. The dog's left the garden but now I can see one of this year's woodpeckers, Man and His Wife pheasant (as we refer to them), huge trampoline (not used for donkey's ages), many weeds, several posts - and oh yes there goes the number e bus again...
SB12
Valery,
Why aren't you catching the bus?
Hmm, crane has now left the building site, but a cement mixer has appeared.
Oh and SB30 (well 31 now)
Valery,
You use the trampoline for the donkey? I'd like to see a photo of that.
Ooops sorry must have strayed into cbeebies web site my mistake.
Was the short balding man with a sign Mark Damazar?
Fx3,
Also the list of Recent Comments is stuck at some point from yesterday with DPM and Not Much.
Damn, that was the No e bus just gone past the window.
Has anyone seen Lissa recently. The way Blog posts are appearing and disappearing now, I fear she may have locked herself in a cupboard.
Or she may have caught the number π bus Pluto (stopping at all points on the way)
I have internet access on my mobile phone, so I’m submitting my entry while out and about. I’m in a beautiful part of Surrey, the sun is shining in through the windows swathing colours across the floor. It’s so calm and peaceful even though there are lots of people here. Still, I’d better go as the funeral is nearly over.
Has Lissa been demoted from blog-moderateress to studio producer?
Interesting
Want to know whats out of my window Eric?...
I see trees of green, red roses too,
I see them bloom for me and you,
and I think to myself
What a wonderful world.
I see skies of blue and clouds of white,
the bright blessed day, dark sacred night,
and I think to myself
What a wonderful world.
The colours of the rainbow,
so pretty in the sky are also on the faces of people goin' by,
I see friends (walking left to right) shakin' hands
sayin', "How do you do!"
They're really sayin' "I love you".
I hear babies cry,
I watch them grow
They'll learn much nore than I'll ever know
and I think to myself What a wonderful world.
Yes I think to myself, What a wonderful world. OH YEAH.
When I was at school they told me that looking out of the window wouldn't get me a job. No matter how much I practised.
O'h to work for the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳.
Tim C,
Is that THE Colin Jackson? Didn't know they had windows in Wales.
Anne,
Magritty?
Well how was that for penalty points or bonus ones was it? I still can't work out whether it's good or bad? I posted at what should have 12 and came in at number 30!
Andy, I don't have fast enough film for my camera, the donkey's a blur. btw have you been to our secret place recently?
O Leader, I caught the next bus, but you weren't there - leastways I didn't see your crane?
Well done Charles - I do too but being a dinosaur, I can't drive it (too expensive)
Off topic, but fun?
and
Enjoy the ride
ed
If I need a hotel room to atend a wedding or funeral I'm not a tourist. Am I then exempt from this bed tax?
Of cours the real question here is; why doesn't Blair and his gang of thieves just introduce a 100% income tax and get it over with.
Val : yes! you haven't?
Ed : I can't get the tune out of my head now
I'm convinced Lissa was "Studio Production", tonight she was something else. I expect her to be presenting PM soon. Whicj would be nice.
this is all just too confusing.
where do they go once you've read them, left and then returned? I followed a link, came back and now I don't know where I am.
but then it's been like that most of my life. Hey ho
#32 but I know it's later than I think.
pssssssst! as we're all talking about such momentous matters take a look in this
Dear all
To explain my absence / demotion / promotion, we shuffle around on a rota between 4 programmes here (The World at One, PM, Broadcasting House and The World this Weekend)...hence one day you'll hear someone was editing and the next day studio producing or just on a day off listening from home.
I'm off on my hols for a week or so hold off on any complaints about glitches til I'm back.
Hopefully we've sorted the discrepancy between the number of comments displayed and the actual number of comments posted.
Lissa
PS have renamed myself "blogger-in-chief". I might rotate titles depending on my mood.
Eddie, please, we need to have a serious talk as you are now worrying me. You have the best programme on R4 (apart from Just A Minute). You don't sit in judgement but easy listening reporting facts and news without getting too serious.Whose window are you looking out of ?, is it some boring ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ one. Don't run yourself down as I personally don't like that in anyone. You said on PM that you looked like you had eaten Sainsbury's. I wouldn't go that far but just cut down on a cream cake or two. You make sense of all the news programmes as we live in a violent world and we don't always want to just turn on the radio and tele and be assailed with the latest disasters and dramatised reporting with hand-waving reporters., Ola Guerin is different though and instantly someone to listen to as you know she is genuine and honest and reports facts as she sees them and is just, herself. You put it into perspective and is the best hour on R4.
Alan.
I saw lots of things out my window today. Some of them quite briefly as the traffic on the A1 northbound was not too bad for a change. The glamour of the travelling salesman.
I spy with my little eye something beginning with R.
Lissa, have a good break - are you going somewhere nice - I hope so.
But what is all this nonsense about leaving any complaints until you get back? NO NO NO, What you want is for all the complaints to come in while you are away, that way they are someone else's problem. And you can come back to a nice smoothly working blog. Unless your stand in on hte blog while you are away is Rupert of course....
Steve -49- fabulous, well worth the look into your window/world.
Lissa - Bon voyage! Send us a post-card?
Andycracra - going off there now...perhaps there's a moderated delay there too?
erm, did anyone hear the show today, or was everyone just blogging? or staring out the window?
Reason I ask was that I've just started a new job - hence a bit light on actually saying anything here till ten-to-bloomin-eleven, and hence also missed the programme.
Worth listening to via the pod-thing? any good bits from the man himself?
There is a slightly addictive element to this blog.
I think Charles Hatton has shown us just how far this can go... and at such a sombre time.
mind you, maybe it was one of those Chinese funerals I read about recently. He did say there were quite a few people... probably getting in the way of his view.
Anne (23) and David (44) -
How about Magrittian?
Rufus T Firefly (41) - He thinks I look alike.
I found myself outside the window here, earlier, but I didn’t see me there when I came back in.
Dr Hackenbush
· has permanently solved the identity crisis, and decided not to be Toninho Cerezo; changedmyname
Oooops! Sorry, I was only teasing about the funeral. I promise to behave myself today … sitting up the front of class at the naughty desk and no staring out of the window.
Dr Hackenbush,
I think Magritty sounds grittier. Magrittian sounds, well, just Magrittian.
Psssst, andycracra, EMBRACE has a convert....
SB61
How did Eric become known as Eddie?
I have been confused about this since I first saw it written at the bottom of the e-mail.
Can anyone help?
wot, no blog yet?
come on Eric some of us have things to do
thank you for the kind words Valery
Steve - you are more than welcome. Did you check out Andy Cragg's site, mentioned on DPM, no 8? More tranquility for the eyes...
Thanks for the plug Val!
I would be failing in my duty as a poor artist if I didn't mention that some of the artworks on the site are for sale. Except that this post might moderated as it possibly could be maybe seen as advertising .
please note that other art sites are available.
We don't see many adverts for Radio Times on TV anymore - I wonder if that's the reason?
SB63
Alan (51),
I quite agree, but then I have a huge crush on Eddie - fully-digested branch of Sainsbury's or not.
there is an old long, haired black shaggy cat, that crosses and re-crosses the road I travel most days; eight or so years ago I knowingly stated, "he won't last long"