continued, unseen, out of the left of the frame

Despite choosing out-of-the-way places for this sort of thing I occasionally have to wait for people to go past (such as when lying in a skip) or try to stand in some way which makes the presence of the camera obvious from a long way away so that I don't just look like I'm lurking behind a tree or round a corner like a potential mugger, such as when hanging around in the Meadows or on the former-railway-path just off Leith Links, as today. Fortunately the camera was sitting on the tripod in the direction from which a bloke trundled quietly up on a bicycle as I was a few steps downwards, ensuring the what of what I was doing was immediately apparent even if the particular why required explanation; he was blipcarded so might even see this, though people I blipcard seem to have a habit of never turning up apart from the bloke who sold me some trainers in Tiso last year.

A similar bloke whose name was not known turned up at a meeting today. He was dragged along by a woman we've worked with slightly before, stood around behind her for a bit, sat down at the table at which the meeting was held but said nothing at all and was not introduced or explained at any point. He wasn't in the calendar entry for the invite and wasn't wearing his security badge in a way which allowed it to be discreetly read. The fact that he wasn't given the handouts we were supplied with indicates that he's an associate of the meeting-holding-woman rather than someone for whose benefit she was supplying the information. Still odd that there was zero reference to him, a bit like a segment of the film of Matt Stone and Trey Parker talking about South Park on one of its anniversaries where they're sitting in a hot tub with a random uncredited bloke who does nothing except watch whichever one is speaking (apart from a small interlude in which he does something interesting under the water which the other two stop to inspect). It's probably the sort of thing I'd like to do if I ever get to hold and direct meetings just to observe what people do and if anyone would eventually ask the random unannounced person's identity, in which case I would then say "That's Bob/Rupert/Jeremy/Marjory/Claerwen/etc" and leave it at that, again to see if anyone asks for further explanation which would be met with "He's from Norman's/Robin's/Susan's/Angharad's team" and then have the mystery person say "Can we just press on? We're wasting time here..." if any further questions concerning their identity are asked. A mystery non-speaking colleague would also be handy for unnerving people in meetings, if they made no contribution except to stare at a particular participant, occasionally ostentatiously making notes.