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20050831

Les Arches


Les Arches
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
I forget what this building was - one of the bibliotheques nationale, maybe. Somewhere in the Latin Quarter? Note to self: write these details down when taking photo...

20050830

Musee de la Mode


Musee de la Mode
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
Three huge painted panels at the back of the Musee de la Mode et du Textiles, facing on to Avenue du President Wilson.

20050829

Fontaine


Fontaine
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
A fish head fountain on a street corner in Paris.

20050828

Menageries


Menageries
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
The Jardin des Plantes, Paris' botanical gardens. Nearby, wallabies and black swans were wandering around - a strange combination.

20050827

Seule Religion


Seule Religion
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
"Consumerism - the Only Religion"

Stencil graffiti (with flaming shopping trolley) on a pavement in the Quartier Latin.

20050826

Tour Eiffel II


Tour Eiffel II
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
So, after a relatively short but pretty intensive exploration of Paris, I have hundreds of photos and some great discoveries I'll be sharing on Flickr over the next few weeks. And by discoveries, I don't mean stuff that's photographed slightly less often than the Eiffel Tower...

20050825

Tour Eiffel I


Tour Eiffel I
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
The reason I haven't posted to Espion Daily for a while is that I've been on holiday for a few days. But I took the espion on tour.

20050824

Northumberland St


Northumberland St
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
Northumberland St, the main shopping thoroughfare in Newcastle. Always packed on a Saturday.

Espion Daily will be taking a break for a couple of days. I'll back fill the photos, of course, I just won't be around to post entries for Thursday and Friday.

20050823

Woodland Box


Woodland Box
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
A storage box for leaflets at the start of one of the walking routes through Allen Banks in Northumberland.

20050822

Scaffolding


Scaffolding
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
The flickrwall alley is underneath the right hand third of the scaffolding - the building being renovated (if that's what's happening) is an old guitar shop.

20050821

Rail


Rail
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
Keeping up the metal rail theme from yesterday - a crash barrier near the Haymarket metro stop and the University of Newcastle.

20050820

Angles


Angles
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
A battered metal railing not far from Manors metro station.

I've just upgraded my phone so I can send MMS direct to my Flickr photostream. So junking up the flickrsphere with my stuff will be possible even when I'm not near a computer.

20050819

Territory


Territory
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
A bird - a chaffinch, I think - staking out its territory near Chollerton in Northumberland.

20050818

WM6414


WM6414
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
The railway station at Wylam in Northumberland. The best thing about this station is the pub next to it, which has a great range of real ales (it's won CAMRA's pub of the year more than once.)

20050817

Leazes Park


Leazes Park
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
One of the statues near the Richardson Road end of Leazes Park. Unless my memory / sense of direction is wrong.

I'm considering a major redesign of the site, when I have time to do it. It may just extend to switching the text from white on black to something more readable, or I may switch from Blogger... much research* to do.

* a euphemism for procrastination

20050816

Sunderland


Sunderland
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
The campus of Sunderland University, alongside the river; there are a few art installations along there (one or two of which I have photos of and will post next week.)

20050815

Beach Foot


Beach Foot
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
Back to the beach in Alnmouth (not my foot.) Thought I would post this before summer becomes a very distant memory and we're stuck with the freezing temperatures, howling wind and constant rain that typifies the weather in Newcastle for what seems like most of the year.

20050814

Cone Zone


Cone Zone
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
Traffic cones by a fence in Northumberland.

It would be the perfect alien invasion plan - if they disguised themselves as traffic cones, they could take over the entire UK before anyone noticed.

20050813

On a Train


On a Train
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
Rows of seats in a train carriage.

I've been so busy lately that it's been hard to get new photos for Espion Daily - I still have a good sized reserve, but it needs a little reinforcement.

20050812

Fly


Fly
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
A tasty snack for my venus fly trap, which I'm hoping won't meet the same terrible fate as nearly every other plant I've tried to look after. According to various websites, a top care tip is 'don't feed it hamburger.'

20050811

Party


Party
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
Someone was having an 18th birthday party in Alnmouth - these flyers were taped to every lamppost in town.

20050810

Terrace


Terrace
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
As grim as they often look on overcast and rainy days, I much prefer these long, clear terraced streets to those newer identikit suburban developments where everything looks the same.

20050809

Barrow


Barrow
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
An abandoned wheelbarrow, filled with planks of wood and left by the side of a pavement.

20050808

Shattered


Shattered
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
Silver, spidery lines across a broken window pane.

20050807

Airport


Airport
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
An easyjet plane at Newcastle airport. I travel to London fairly often on research trips or for family events - it's usually most convenient and cost-efficient to travel by air, especially as GNER Newcastle to London trains are often ludicrously over-priced (although significantly less tattered and dirty than they were a few years ago.)

20050806

Map


Map
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
An OS map of Northumberland, very useful when in the middle of nowhere.

20050805

Green


Green
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
A small beetle on a leaf in a garden in Buckinghamshire - apologies for the lack of identification; Google didn't come up with anything useful.

If someone on Flickr comes up with a good suggestion or two, I'll update here.

20050804

Bikes


Bikes
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
... lined up against railings near the school of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

20050803

Big Wheel


Big Wheel
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
On my very brief trip down to the Tall Ships on Newcastle's Quayside, the only shot I managed to get was this one - the ships themselves were moored and nothing much was happening.

Strangely enough, I realised that I'd been on this particular wheel before - when it was in Paris in 2000.

20050802

Chalk Words


Chalk Words
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
As I was walking past the campus of Sunderland University one day last month, a group of artists were drawing messages in chalk on the paving stones alongside the river.

Could be an extended period of downtime on the way - I think one of the fans on my ancient computer is about to fail. Fingers crossed it doesn't.

20050801

Pop Art


Pop Art
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
A reproduction of a pop art painting (a Roy Litchenstein?) in a shop in Newcastle.