Tuesday 13 March 2012

Cause and effect captured at source

I presume this is the chicken stalag at Trelawnyd, but the only 'little man' I can find is actually running up the churchyard itself..

This, however, is the view outside the post office around my corner. I got a little side-tracked. Note the vicar (who I know by sight) also getting a little side-tracked. There is an interesting story about this priest which I am unable to tell you publicly, but it isn't what you might think, so don't sue please.

In a pathetic attempt to prove that I was not looking up filth when I stumbled across the Google Street View image of the woman standing naked and looking out to sea, here is another still from the same batch. You might like to enlarge this one (I didn't need to tell Chris to do that for the other), to get the full charm.

There are loads of strange, funny and interesting shots taken by Google camera cars, from all over the world. I don't know where this one is from.

Some are of exotic-looking prostitutes, standing by dusty roads in pink hot-pants; others are of crimes being committed by people with guns; there are shots of people mooning at the car, their bare arses forever immortalised in global cyberspace. I have been told that there is one in England of a spanner, seemingly falling from the sky and about to hit the camera. Maybe someone threw it out of a window.

A friend of mine scared the hell out of his local postman by saying that the Street View shot of their area included his Royal Mail delivery van parked outside the pub. All number plates are blanked out, but advertisements are not.

My street has no such unusual incidents taking place, maybe because Google seem to take all the pictures of Bath very early in the morning - you can see from the angle of the sun.

I am hoping that John is on his local one, dressed in Wellingtons and pajamas, feeding the chickens. That's probably too much to hope, though not as unlikely as catching Sarah standing on the foreshore and communing with nature.

27 comments:

  1. Looks like he is Tom! Covered in pig sh*t. Chickens running all over the churchyard too.

    My street view clearly shows me struggling to get the body into the boot of the car. I shall have to see if I can get that one removed before the police turn up at the do...

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    1. I've just taken a virtual walk up my street and become side-tracked by three very pretty girls wearing very short shorts, walking past the post office a couple of years ago. If it were not so long ago, I would rush out and see if they are still there.

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  2. Oh, the hours a person (Tom) could spend looking at all the street activity in the world. Next thing you know they'll have Google inside views, where they step up to your window with a camera and take virtual pictures of living room activity, and kitchen, and bedroom . . . "Goldang, what's that outside our window, Merris?" "Why, it's the Google Man, Henry." "Merris, grab my gun."

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    1. Sometimes I wish I had an inside view. 'Merris' - that's a good name. I might suggest it to some people.

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  3. Isn't that beautiful Tom ? A touch of delicate beauty amongst concrete and telephone wires.
    If you put our address in it shows 1/2 a mile down the road and my sisters house has scaffolding all over it !

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    1. Yes - I feel the same way about the girl in the red shorts.

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  4. Tom
    I am on street view!!!
    I can be clearly seen pottering away on the field next to one of my hen houses!!!!!!!!

    http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=-33.988934,18.432997&spn=37.299588,75.410156&z=4&layer=c&cbll=-33.988934,18.432997&panoid=dSvU7MWQ5OmDwepoiHbbRA&cbp=12,322.95,,0,-8.81&source=embed&hl=en

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    1. Just tried pasting that in, and it didn't work. Are you sure Trelawnyd exists?

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    2. Told you! You can clearly see the chickens running amok amidst the gravestones and JG is seen in the field with his arse hanging out of his joggy bottoms.

      This is a stalkers dream.

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    3. My street is a better stalker's dream - see photos...

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  5. look st trelawnyd on street view and blonk your little yellow man on the road running down by the church
    I am in the field!!!!!!!!!!

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    1. Two street views (yours and mine) posted up. I will tell you the vicar story by email, John.

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  6. pan right when you move up the lane..you will see me in the field... the man in the lane is a guy called Peter
    ...........got your email!
    amen!

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    1. Ah - now I see you. Sadly in some rather clean day clothes, and not covered in chicken shit as I would have hoped.

      You look a fine figure of a man, but I bet you have diminished somewhat since Google cruised by.

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  7. Yeah Hello ? John and Tom ? Other people exist in this world you know. I for one am sure I can found on a google camera somewhere if I cared to look but won't because I have a LIFE. (Actually I don't, otherwise why would I be spending so much time hopping between your two blogs?

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    1. Yes, quite right Donna. I sometimes feel very guilty about focussing on our tiny part of this huge world, until I read your posts about wooden mitre cutters for chopping bars of soap into shapes. Then I begin to see the bigger picture.

      Still - when all is said and done - it is by seeing the big in the small that we achieve a perspective on our own lives, which is why I have posted that lovely young girl in the red shorts with the nice arse and slender legs.

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  8. Poor John. They must have taken that pic the very day before he mowed!

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  9. I still think that I might have spottet you or your doppelgaenger with the same long legs and silvery hair on Google Maps walking down a sidestreet in Bath. Is that really not you with the black or dark blue sweater draped over your shoulders?

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    1. Give me a postcode, and I'll tell you Iris. You never know...

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    2. I mean a Bath post code, not yours (although you can give me yours if you like...)

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  10. I want to be on Google street view!

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    1. I want you to be on Google Streets too Chris - get yourself a pair of red shorts.

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  11. I don't know about the postcode, but next to 106 Walcot St (The shop there was having a laptop sale at the time!) is a small lane. There is a chap walking down there that might be the twin you didn't know you had!

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    1. No, that is a man called Rick Knapp. He was the founder of Walcot Reclamation, which - sadly - no longer exists. He is a part-time mate of mine (don't know why, better ask him), and I am much more handsome than he is. He is also a few years older than me.

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  12. I can't believe that you actually know him! I do believe, though, that you are much more handsome. After all, he was probably never asked to be a pin-up!

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    1. Rick, me and a few other people used to hang out with each other and shag each other's wives, in between dinner parties. Half of us are now dead, and the other half just pretend to be.

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