I have found a problem with this blog...I can't remember what I have done this week, like at all, it's slowly coming back to me but with little importance. So I will focus on yesterday, Saturday, 10th November.
Song of the week - The les Clochards - Sledgehammer - purely because I saw them street performing in Edinburgh, they are hilarious, I have a photo of them on my 'Project 365'.
Saturday - Lost in London
Before I start, let me take you back to Friday, I was talking to my dad and he suggested I go up to London to see the 'Lord Mayor's Parade', it was pretty good, yeah, expert review from Will there. After following some directions that my Dad had written down on a piece of paper as to where to stand, I found myself walking towards some police officers to ask for their photograph, I only did this because I would never see them again and I don't think they can arrest me for it...Which is why I'm now writing this from inside a prison cell.
Only kidding nan, I took a couple of photos of them and then walked off towards where I guessed the parade would come past. I stood next to the wrong person. The really wrong person. He is pictured in photo 9, he blew his whistle at everything, was heckling everyone and seemed insistent on talking to everyone around him. As soon as I pressed the shutter button over his head I knew it was a mystake, he turns, sees that my camera is bigger than his and says 'That's a bloody big camera', seeing that everyone is looking at myself and the grown up problem child I reply, 'Yeah, I'll do you a trade?', it takes a second for me to realise what I've said as I look at his tiny digital camera and theres a small moment where I think he's taken me serious, nope, all good, he turns round to a woman in a n army uniform and shouts 'I like a girl in uniform', saved by the military.
If you are looking at my photos and thinking 'why has Will taken two pictures of the same policeman, well it's because I haven't been able to take photos of people under their noses without other people noticing so I guess I took the oppertunity.
Before leaving London in the afternoon, I took a chance to go into the British library, I heard that there were some pretty historically cool stuff in there. I was right. In a darkened room there was original scribbling from the Beatles, copies of bibles, Handel's 'And the glory of the lord' on scruffy manuscript paper and Jane Eyre notes. But. What they will not tell you is that in the room with a copy of the Magna carta, do not press the buttons with the intresting questions written on them. Picture this, silent room, everyone in awe of the history in that very space, the scripture laying there delicately, silence of utter attention, I spot a selection of interactive questions saying such things as 'Why is the Magna Carter so hard to read?', I press the said button thinking that it would be text displayed and I could read it like an intellectual and then silently nod so my piers could see I had taken the information in and we were at the same intellectual level. No. Instead, the answer came blaring out of a loudspeaker in the corner of the room 'THE MAGNA CARTER IS SO HARD TO READ BECAUSE MONKS IN MEDEIVAL TIMES...', everyone turns to see a very red faced Will, but whats more, I couldn't walk away and pretend it was somebody else because it was quite a small room, I had to stand there, nod at the relayed information, furthermore the lady who was loudly answering my question said 'If you would like to magnify the Magna Carter there is an interactive computer in the opposite corner of this room...', oh no, I am not falling for that one again, in case it blares out some industrial heavy metal music while I read.
Until next week
Will :)
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