Warm and cosy on a winter morning

26 December 2014

Just needs plugging in and switching on. Oh and lecky on the meter of course.

Reginald St, Luton

Body building toddler

25 December 2014

This goes with the pushchair with beer can, posted earlier in this blog. Go see if you can find it. Nutrament has that weird tattoo/goff style lettering and is popular with gym crowd. This can, however, is Nurishment, misspelt, no doubt, in order to make users' spelling poorer, and so keep them out of high powered jobs.

Dunstable Road, Luton

Tiny block of flat complete with furniture

18 December 2014

Elisabeth spotted this. Naturally, I questioned bona fides. Elisabeth insisted. Quite indignant she was. So, here it is, a tiny block of flat complete with furniture. Would fit dwarf hamster.

Brook St, Luton

Meri Chunar Udd Udd Jaye

19 December 2014

Meri Chunar Udd Udd Jaye

Flaguni Pathak penned 2000 Bollywood tune, with an excellent "If you can't beat 'em" style pose by the person on the cd.

Purists note - this cd was turned over in the first of this blog's manipulations. Friends at Abandoned Cds would have wanted to know what was on the cd.

Charles St, Luton

Hangers on

14 December 2014

Hangers on

Waiting for a bus. Either the 31 or the 38. These hangers are Bury Park bound.

Church St, Luton

Into the fire

9 December 2014

Into the fire

Film noir, kitchen implement version. F Pan's just extinguished three cigarettes and is using the cover of a mossy wall to stalk a spatula.

Brook St, Luton

Insertion

5 December 2014

Insertion

An item of equipment which must surely, surely be used only for deeply immoral purposes.

Hitchin Road, Luton

Dog bowl

6 December 2014

Dog bowl

Exactly that. Or this. This had more the look of someone being kind rather than someone chucking rubbish out.

Hitchin Road, Luton

Stakeout

29 November 2014

Stakeout

Here's something else hiding. It might look like rubbish to you, but I suspect this garden chair is surely on maneuvers. It's using the black bin as cover.

Hitchin Road, Luton

Alveoli

29 November 2014

Alveoli

That's what this looked like to me. Mind you, it was a chilly morning and I hadn't really awake.

Hitchin Road, Luton

Street game

29 November 2014

Street game

No idea how this is played, because some helpful sod made off with the instructions and any other pieces or clues which may have enabled the game to commence.

Near St Ann's Road, Luton

Purple and black stripey stick

29 November 2014

Purple and black stripey stick

Possible late firework, possible magic stick. Or possible old school colourblind barber sign.

Brook Street, Luton

Buried appliance

29 November 2014

Buried appliance

An illustration of what can go wrong when Luton Council's crack squad of ninja road re-surfacers are over zealous and forget to remove all standing white goods or appliances before laying the tarmac.

Brook Street, Luton

Tassle with gold ball on the end

29 November 2014

Tassle with gold ball on the end

For that is what it is.

Richmond Hill, Luton

A crutch

 29 November 2014

A crutch

For a very small person. The crutch looks as if it's waiting for its owner to return, although the hand rest's state of repair suggests it may have been dumped.

Liverpool Road, Luton

Off to the shops

23 November 2014

Off to the shops

Proof, it was needed, that big tins of vegetable oil go shopping too.

Hitchin Road, Luton

Cambridge, Wycombe, Plymouth

23 November 2014

Cambridge, Wycombe, Plymouth

A list of ten towns in England and Scotland. There's more than a hint of the pools here, with the three towns in the title and Derby apparently letting the side down.

Hitchin Road, Luton

Abandoned cds

15 November 2014

Abandoned cds

Not sure what was contained on these discs. Not sure, either, that  this picture really does discarded data files nearly as much justice as the excellent Abandoned cds site.

Charles St, Luton

Greek military march

15 November 2014

Greek military march

This may look like a splendid dada collage. Look more closely, and there's someone marching, from right left as we look. If you need a starting point, the white object on the left hand side about half way up is obviously a foot.

Hitchin Road, Luton

Scored avocado

14 November 2014

Scored avocado

It looks like a lemon, I know
In the dark it would probably glow
We can break the embargo -
It's a scored avocado
And waiting for cover of snow

Bute Street, Luton

Rocket Number Nine

8 November 2014

Rocket Number Nine

Either that, or a bishop's hat. Taking of Rocket Number Nine, have you heard this lately?

Hitchin Road, Luton

It won't fit in the bin

8 November 2014

It won't fit in the bin

We don't usually do rubbish, although we have featured more than one toilet in the past. Here's another. Whoever put it there must have been optimistic about their chances of putting it a street bin...

Hitchin Road, Luton

Turning the pavement blue

8 November 2014

Turning the pavement blue

I can imagine the frustration here. The cartridge type screams "cheap", but at least someone's done the honourable thing a bought a ruddy fountain pen. But then to suffer the ignominy of blue ink.... BLUE ink.

Hitchin Road, Luton

Home Counties meth lab

8 November 2014

Home Counties meth lab?

You'd hope not.

Oxen Road, Luton

Sweet lovin'

6 November 2014

Sweet lovin'

A beautifully lit scene, reminding me of Last Tango in Paris.

St Mary's Lane, Luton

Green ear

4 November 2014

Green ear

What a beautiful ear. Much nicer than that one that caused all that fuss, years ago, in Blue Velvet.

Off Park Street, Luton

Hat

29 October 2014

Hat

Found in almost the same place as 'cups' (see last entry). Made all the nicer for the chewing gum splat, top right, which looks like the moon.

Huddinge railway station, Sweden

Cups

28 October 2014

Cups

Our Swedish correspondent reports. "a very meagre trip this time. The  Huddinge council's street cleaning operations are a bit over efficient." These cups are nice, however.

Huddinge railway station, Sweden

Fancy breathing

2 November 2014

Fancy breathing

This looks like breathing apparatus from an X-Wing fighter from that Star Wars.

Hitchin Road, Luton

Knackered strawberry

2 November 2014

Knackered strawberry

Looks like this fruit was taken down and had the life sucked out of it by a sycamore. Tragic.

Hitchin Road, Luton

Black-eyed 'binky'

2 November 2014

Black-eyed 'binky'

Anyone with kids. Is this a new craze, or some cheap, perfectly adequate Wilko's knock off?

Hitchin Road, Luton

Old banger, well parked

2 November 2014

Old banger, well parked

Could be a Roman Candle. I don't know. Beautiful parallel parking, whatever it is.

Hitchin Road, Luton

Evil ladybird

2 November 2014

Evil ladybird

It seems that, ever since the 1970s, we've been threatened by bugs. Firstly, Colorado Beetles, more recently, Harlequin Ladybird. This lil' perisher seems to have an eye and two legs missing, but should still be bagged up and sent to the lab.

Hitchin Road, Luton

Lancaster bomber

25 October 2014

Lancaster bomber

Looks like one, anyway. Rendered in either real or pretend gold. Probably real.

Hitchin Road, Luton

Northern Soul

25 October 2014

Northern Soul

Lot of it about lately. Not sure why. Why not 'southern soul'? If you think about it, Wigan and Blackpool are northern if you're based in the South East. Or the Midlands. Not if you're in Scotland. Anyway, this pic's from a discarded manual for how to click your fingers at a Northern Soul 'do'.

Hitchin Road, Luton

Pink spawn

25 October 2014

Pink spawn

Something tiny and pink, which looks as if it's well on the way to hatching. Hence the 'spawn'. It may, of course, be cheap jewels, but looks more organic.

Hitchin Road, Luton

Angel wing

23 October 2014

Angel wing

Do angels really exist? No, they certainly do not. Here, however, after windy weather, is proof that angel wings do.

St Ann's Path, Luton

Woofer?

5 October 2014

Woofer?

This could be a woofer. It might be a tweeter. I doubt anyone really cares.

Hitchin Road, Luton

Some pigeons are going to get fat

5 October 2014

Some pigeons are going to get fat

Arguably little more than litter? Tell that to the pigeons, who are going to o CRAZY when they find it.

Hitchin Road, Luton

Vehicles

5 October 2014

Vehicles

Cryptic evidence of taxis. Unless this is a theme take away menu. You would suspect not.

Hitchin Road, Luton

Tiny record player

27 September 2014

Tiny record player

LOST: One tiny record player. Would fit in this tiny record player bag.

Hitchin Road, Luton

Piano (remains)

22 September 2014

Piano (remains)

A good friend of mine reliably informed me that these bits of wood were, until recently, a stand up piano. Probably sounded better then than it does now.

Hitchin Road, Luton

Hat or pants?

21 September 2014

Hat or pants?

A beguiling garment which had moved into the gutter, but was still there a week later. It's relocation does suggest the damn thing(s) may be alive....

So, Barry and Elisabeth; hat or pants?

Hitchin Road, Luton

Brethren

21 September 2014

Brethren

A couple of drinking gentlemen left this tome. I passed them and they were looking at it, in fairly non-committal fashion, more interested in their drinking. The name of the book is "Brethren".

Jubilee Street, Luton

William the Conkerer

20 September 2014

William the Conkerer

It's that time of year, that's all.

Hitchin Road, Luton

Cross-stitch calling card

19 September 2014

Cross-stitch calling card

We all know how your average mutt lets other mutts know it's been passing by leaving smells and unctions around lamposts, streetsigns etc. Not so in Luton. Mutts communicate through the medium of CROSS STITCH, as discovered by this lady, or at least someone connected to her.

Moor Path, Luton

Street party

19 September 2014

Street party

Some folk know how to celebrate. Others don't. In the case of this toper, we can't really be sure. Picture provided by a lady.

Stockwood Crescent, Luton

Thank you for the music

13 September 2014

Thank you for the music

A picture which would sit well on a more specialist site. Which I implore you to visit; it validates this site in the same way this site validates it.

Hitchin Road, Luton

Ol' red eyes

13 September 2014

Ol' red eyes

Not sure what happened to this fellow. Looks as if he may well have been off for a job interview, before some really terrible things happened to him.

Hitchin Road, Luton

Healy's packet

13 September 2014

Healy's packet

A blast from the past, when pay used to be made in money. Not much money, by the look of things, in Healy's case.

Jubilee Street, Luton