The Anonymous Widower

I’ve Found A Nice Cure For Adverts

I’ve got the ITV pictures on my television, but I’ve got the sound off and I’m listening to the commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live.

It doesn’t improve the football, but it does improve the broadcasting experience.

A lot of the adverts I’ve just watched now look totally ridiculous.

There’s one for Official Player Escorts, that could be insinuating things, we’d rather not know.

June 19, 2012 Posted by | Sport | , , , , , | Leave a comment

A Bus in an Brighter Shade of Red

This bus had been painted in a rather odd shade of red or more likely orange.

An Orange Bus

It is being use to advertise Ed Sheeran

June 8, 2012 Posted by | Transport/Travel | , , | 2 Comments

Adverts On Television

They were discussing this on BBC Breakfast this morning, so I gave them my four-pennyworth.

I must be the only person, who’s not seen any of Downton Abbey. 

 

The reason, is I don’t watch adverts.  So when football is on ITV and BBC Radio 5 Live, I listen to the radio.

 

When I moved to London, I had to cancel my old Sky subscription. They asked, if there was anything would make me resubscribe in my new house.  I said, jokingly, a subscription without ads at an extra cost. They said I wasn’t the first to say that.

 

Shoot the meerkats!

Until I get the no-advert Sky option, I’ll continue to watch and listen to the BBC.

May 30, 2012 Posted by | World | , , , | 2 Comments

A Pair of Wongas

Wonga is now targetting the business market.

A Pair of Wongas

Did they give the drivers a bonus to be in convoy?

May 29, 2012 Posted by | Business, Finance & Investment, Transport/Travel, World | , , | Leave a comment

An All-Over Train on the Overground

I took these pictures at Canonbury station on the North London line.

I’m not sure, whether I like the concept, but I suppose it brings in money.

May 29, 2012 Posted by | Transport/Travel | , , | Leave a comment

A Pro-Staffy Advert

Staffies have a bad press, but the Battersea Dogs Home have a serious problem, in that so many get turned in.

A Pro-Staffy Advert

This poster is trying to redress the balance.

It’s an interesting idea.

May 25, 2012 Posted by | World | , | 2 Comments

Bus Adverts Must Work!

Or at least they must have done for Wonga after their series of adverts a couple of months ago.  As they are now using a whole new set of adverts for their Wonga for Business product.

A Wonga for Business Advert

The adverts are everywhere on a bus route near you.

On the other hand, they have been criticised by the OFT according to this report.

May 22, 2012 Posted by | Finance & Investment, Transport/Travel | , , | Leave a comment

Top Cat Returns

It would appear that the latest film is a remake of the kids’ cartoon, Top Cat. It’s so old, I used to watch it as a child. Although, they had to call it Boss Cat to avoid conflict with a tinned cat food of the same name.

Top Cat Returns

Judging by the number of buses, they’re advertising  it on, it isn’t going to do very well.

May 21, 2012 Posted by | Transport/Travel | , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Congratulations Your Majesty

I’ve only seem it on one bus on route 21, so it might be unique.

Congratulations Your Majesty

Although, I have seen it several times, before I got this picture at Newington Green. In some ways to photograph it there is appropriate, as that is the area of London, where the non-comformists based themselves in the seventeenth century. It has a long connection with Mary Wollstonecraft. It is a place well worth a visit, as it has a nice garden and some buildings worth a look.

May 11, 2012 Posted by | News, Transport/Travel | , , , | Leave a comment

Where Have All The Stonewall Bus Adverts Gone?

I sat in Starbucks in Upper Street today having a cappuccino, but I didn’t see one of Stonewall’s adverts, that used to be so numerous.

Perhaps the contract has finished.

But I did see a lot advertising a film called Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

It used to be the rumour that when a film was advertised extensively on buses, it was not the best.

April 17, 2012 Posted by | Transport/Travel | , , | 2 Comments