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I've been gazing out of my window too much today so now I'd like to look through yours please. What's the view? What's the weather like? Who's out there?

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Three West African guys walking back and forth, shouting at each other occasionally, putting jackets on and taking them off. They've just now been joined by three other guys. Now they're leaning against a wall. They've put their hoodies up because it's very windy and grey here. A block of flats off to my right, classic London row-houses running down to the left. A military utility vehicle directly in fron the the window, and a Morris Minor to the left of that. They guys continue to talk. They're out there almost every day.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I took this a couple of minutes ago, from my bedroom window:

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― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Panoramic view of the northwest London skyline: the hills of Harrow and the arch of Wembley to my left, the hills of Highgate and the tower of Trellick to my right.

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The Current Periodicals Room across the lobby from the Loan Desk. The friendly blonde who just asked me a question about a book walking away. The trees outside, through the windows in front and to the right of me. It's a bit gray today.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

What's a window?

Looking round at the various half-visible windows in this office, all I can see are a sliver of the rooftops of Soho and some scaffolding. But I know that only 50 yards away there are some fab shoes I really should be trying on right this minute.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

What's the view? A tree and a whole buncha houses

What's the weather like? Sunny intervals

Who's out there? Scumbags, creeps and weirdos

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

wow Cathy, the Glasgow FAP I went to must have been super mega local for you.

I don't have my camera with me unfortunately. I can see our new building being constructed, some empty plots of land where new blocks will one day be built I'm sure, a big red brik wall and houses beyond it. Beyond that I can make out the trees of Shotover Country Park. It is quite bright and sunny with a fair sprinkling of white fluffy cumulus, with a slight breeze ruffling the branches of the small trees in our car park.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I can see Regent Street. It's a bit grey here too. Dozens of buses. Tourists walking in and out of the souvenir shop buying umbrellas.

Cathy - is that Glasgow or am I embarrasing myself?

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

If I look out the door to my office, across the hall, and through my boss's office, I can see a brick building. It looks like it might be sunny out.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I live very close to the pub where we fapped now, but I didn't then. I've changed addresses three times since this time last year, it's ridiculous. This is a nice place to live.

Yes, it's Glasgow. The buildings are Kelvingrove Museum and the Glasgow Univeristy main building.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The tops of a maple tree, a birch and a smaller birch behind my window - against the background of red bick walls of the two neighbouring 5-storey houses. The sky's greyish, it's getting sorta chilly now in the evening. Seems to drizzle, too... O-oh, a bad rain's a-gonna come, apparently. :(

As I'm 'bout two metres away from my window (2nd floor), cannot see whether there's anybody out there in the rain.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I can see the other side of my building as I look onto the inside of a quadrangle - lots of windows and yellow brick. There's a Royal Mail van unloading at the post room and some scaffolding against one wall where they're boosting the AC.
Weather: overcast with occasional showers.
Cathy's sky looks nicer than mine and it's only a couple of miles away.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

is the kelvingrove museum the one that was supposedly built backwards?

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, and the architect committed suicide.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"Supposedly" is the operative word here

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

do you mean like a Wendy house, ie they put all the exhibits in the middle and built the museum round it?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

That's not backwards, that's inside out.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

It's raining outside. I can see a lot of horse chestnut trees which are looking heavy and end-of-summerish. A couple of floodlights from Scotstoun. If I strain my neck, the Finnieston Crane. Mostly, the foreground is just building site - the university has sold off a chunk of land to housing developers.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

It's sunny out. There's a truck parked in the alley, and a ladder extending up to the roof of an apartment complex next door, but I can't tell what kind of work is being done. The cars in the parking lot are shiny. In about an hour, the kids from the Catholic grade school on the other side of the alley will be out for recess.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The weather is shitty and overcast, and i look directly at a building that is much nicer than the one we live it (but it sucks for them, as they have to look at us....thus, we have a better view). Problem today is this, though: that building is undergoing boiler repair, so there's a big ass truck parked outside the building idling....and has been for about at least three hours, making tons of fucking noise.

Otherwise, it looks something like this...only without the flowers...

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

yes it reeks of no-more-summer today where I work, i can just about see swaying trees behind the blinds.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm still puzzling over this museum.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

You have to walk backwards through it to truly appreciate it

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

it's shut until 2006 tho.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

They're attempting to turn it round so it faces the right way

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

a courtyard. an alleyway. more apartment buildings. the back window of the korean nail salon.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I misread that as an allyzay.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

telegraph hill/coit tower.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

tree, roof, patch of fading blue sky, a few clouds, drain pipe, patio.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The kids are outside now. I can't tell what they're playing. They seem to be tossing some kind of ball around and chasing it. There's a smaller group of boys with a football. A girl off to the side is jumping rope.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

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