Day XV

A bit like the now delightfully retro Semisonic album recently re-discovered in all its' glory, today I'm Feeling Strangely Fine. Nothing has changed drastically but, I always seem to enjoy myself in classes, looking forward to leaving my flat this evening too! Also, in a thrilling game of cat and mouse with the wind and clouds I narrowly managed to cheat Mother Nature out of a drenching ... 1-0! Back of the net!

As you've come to expect, and don't say I don't spoil you, like a recalcitrant camel travelling across the temperemental University internet, is the Gert Lush High Resolution image.

One of the things playing on my mind at the moment is the prospect of housing for next year and, to date, having nothing remotely sorted in that area. There's one nice possibility, but certainly nothing definitive and this is the most excited I've been able to get about the whole thing!

In the traditions of vaguely strapping this onto something current and relevant in the world (a bit like a bodged bicycle rack made out of some bungees ...), in my mind, at least, I've linked this to the general uncertainty surrounding most things in the world right now. The Environment, Energy resources, The Economy are all really quite unstable and unsure of where we might going at the moment. It isn't just these issues either. So, like almost everyone, if I stop to think about it: "I don't know where we are going now ..."

Day V

Following on from today's tutorial with the lengthy discussion about McDonals, today I have prepared the "Headline double-header"; the double-whammy; the Big Mac, BK Whopper or Footlong Sub of this newspaper headline based feast, all served up on the usual blue door.

With fractionally less writing to appease Hugh (although the border remains because as well as liking it; I actually use it for the very reason suggested for its' removal - the connotations of an uncropped image and as someone who does everything possible to acheive the desired composition in camera to avoid cropping, that's important to me), here it is in all it's chipped, faded and flaky glory:

Thursday is traditionally the day of publication for my local newspaper, the Somerset Standard, so I was keen to include that if, on the off-chance their lead story had any relevance to something going on in the world outside of a small Somerset market town. By chance their lead story: "Driver's miracle escape." was deemed sufficiently relevant to what the Times were going on about with "Huge rise in traffic is choking the roads." (Can't resist: Choking the roads? Probably isn't doing much for the environment either, but I suppose that may be a story for the Guardian to get it's teeth into ...) so I slapped them both on and I too hit the road.

Today's location continues to bring a visual connection to the news into my work and is a car dealership, a place that sells new cars to add to those already on the road.