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What was that stuck on?

I know what you are thinking. A piece of modern art type photography fit only for the Turner Prize and the dustbin. Here are a bunch of London pavement shapes that mean nothing, photographed by me this afternoon, outside a pub in Warwick Way, not far from where I live. No story here.

But click on the picture and it turns out there is a story in this picture after all.

But, I wonder what it was.

8 comments to What was that stuck on?

  • Verity

    Brian – that was funny! LOL.

  • Johnathan

    A bit gross for this time of the morning! ugh.

  • JSAllison

    I’ve often wondered to myself as I trod various bits of pavement in europe just who might have trod here before me. Usually shortly before it occurred to me once again that there is no such thing as topsoil in europe, but rather a 1000 year accumulation of cow droppings overlaying all.

  • emy

    JSA,

    And that is just about the best description of Europe That I have seen for quite a while!

    “a 1000 year accumulation of cow droppings “

  • John Steele

    JSAllison

    Ah, there are times when I wish America had the kind of history that Europe has. Then we’d have our own layer of cowdroppings. Instead we have to put up with a constrant stream of BS from Washington. Oh, well.

  • Andrew Duffin

    “Instead we have to put up with a constrant stream of BS from Washington.”

    Whereas we have to put up with a constant stream of BS from Brussels.

    Hard to see what difference history makes, really.

  • Brussels does control the EU as more and more country autonomy slips through their fingers. Sad really. What is wrong with nationalism?

  • Snide

    What is wrong with nationalism?

    Tyranny is fine, just so long as it is local, eh? How about we try and move beyond that and accept more individualism?