Roland | Tuesday, October 11, 2005 |
We took a walk through Hyde Park this evening in an effort to kill one or more birds with a single ninja-like stone. We needed some groceries and things for dinner (after all, we're now a two fridge family and this one needs filling) but there was a foodie type event (and will be for the next few weeks for a couple of nights each week) featuring stalls from some of the local restaurant talent (including actually the place right next door to my office).
Largely noodle orientated, and with peanut and sesame aromas on the air, there was a respectable turn out. Off over the other side there was some music playing. The stalls that we saw all had respectable queues and that sealed my fate for grocery shopping.
The other reason for going through the park is it's the site of an event from the Art and About series whereby the "city is the canvas". In Hyde Park's case a number (20 or so) of pictures selected from submissions have been blown up to enormous proportions (perhaps 3 by 2 metres) and strung between fairy-light adorned trees.
Now you may ask, why Roland?
Because of the great honker of a Rat* on the pavement in the middle of the park, that's why.
It paid scant attention to us, and unlike that monster toilet dwelling spider, I reckon that it was genuinely more afraid of us than we of it. It scuttled off and that was that.
*For non-uk readers (yeah, right), Roland Rat was a puppet that started as a kids thing on morning TV back in the eighties, and was far more popular than was seemly. Think national retardation.
Largely noodle orientated, and with peanut and sesame aromas on the air, there was a respectable turn out. Off over the other side there was some music playing. The stalls that we saw all had respectable queues and that sealed my fate for grocery shopping.
The other reason for going through the park is it's the site of an event from the Art and About series whereby the "city is the canvas". In Hyde Park's case a number (20 or so) of pictures selected from submissions have been blown up to enormous proportions (perhaps 3 by 2 metres) and strung between fairy-light adorned trees.
Now you may ask, why Roland?
Because of the great honker of a Rat* on the pavement in the middle of the park, that's why.
It paid scant attention to us, and unlike that monster toilet dwelling spider, I reckon that it was genuinely more afraid of us than we of it. It scuttled off and that was that.
*For non-uk readers (yeah, right), Roland Rat was a puppet that started as a kids thing on morning TV back in the eighties, and was far more popular than was seemly. Think national retardation.
