London had elephants...

Me & Evie were walking home after meeting James at lunchtime and I saw a decorated giraffe and it reminded me of the elephant parade back in 2010.

I asked the bloke what its about (thinking that I wanted to take a photo more than anything).

To celebrate Colchester Zoo's 50th anniversary they for 10 weeks having giraffes roaming around Essex (mainly Colchester) and then the giraffes get auctioned off for charity.

As they are looking for sponsors of the giraffes I e-mailed my bosses (as they are both from Essex) ;o)

he wasnt a happy train driver

I got to Chelmsford train station this morning and I could see that the platform was busier than normal (not the "have to shut the platform" busy that it would have been an hour later), I looked at the train times board and it said that all the trains were delayed because of an earlier trespass incident ;o(.

I got upto the platform and there was an announcement that the next train towards London Liverpool Street would terminate at Shenfield (oh great!).

So I got on the train and managed to get a seat and the train is just about to stop at Shenfield and the train driver says "I have just been told that because we are running an hour and 20 minutes late we have to terminate the train at Shenfield this has nothing to do with me I am just the train driver", he is clearly not a happy bunny...

...and the elephants have gone too :o(

being ecological

I went upto London yesterday to do some more elephants, I was at one point fairly near Pall Mall and there were a huge crowd of people just hanging around and a huge Police presence, I didnt have a clue what this was for until I came home and saw in the tv guide that it was Trouping of the Colour, we got the flyby here too (although I missed it!).

I knew that there were a few elephants in Selfridges, and not wishing to traipse allover the store looking for the elephants, I went to the information desk to ask where the elephants were located, they are obviously used to loonies like me asking because they had a supply of store guides with an x in pink highlighter pen showing where the elephants were on each floor ;o). Incidentally there were a couple of women at the information desk buying gift vouchers (for a posh friend no doubt) who turned to the other person on the desk and asked "theyre not real elephants are they?" FFS. It wouldnt surprise me if this woman would buy the I cant believe its not butter knockoff What not butter being sold in Poundland!

So off I went with my store guide in hand...

...I was on the fourth floor and a salesman asked me if I was looking for anything in particular and I said "yes, the elephant" ;o), and he pointed me in the right direction. I should be pleased that he didnt take one look at me in my jeans and hooded fleece and mention that Primark is over the road towards "the huge white arch".

I had finally photographed the last elephant on the lower ground floor (why cant they just call it the basement?) and I saw a lady photographing it also, so I asked her if she had the store guide showing where the other elephants were? She said no so I offered her my one so she could do the others (saving a tree or at least a twig in the process ;o)).

I then went over (after having some lunch as my tummy thought that my throat had been cut) to Hyde Park, as I knew that there were some elephants lurking there, I found the ones by Speakers Corner but I couldnt find the ones by the Serpentine ;o(. I never realised that Hyde Park was so big!

Elephants roaming around London

Yesterday on my way home I saw this outside the Willis Tower, as part of this ;o)