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in ticehurst church ... they don't make 'em like this any more

long sign on a pub at warlingham

limpsfield church hides the tomb of mountstuart elphinstone

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Mountstuart_Elphinstone

weeding the ponds ...

.. at the red barn, blindley heath

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rich tea biscuit preservation society

jenny uglow's lunar men ... if you are devouring "chemistry: a volatile history" and "how earth made us" via the BBC iPlayer, then you might also enjoy this book

if i pin this photo on the wall, will the loved one be motivated to finish ironing my shirts ?

adopted ... someone in eccles road had thrown him out with their christmas tree

winter housekeeping ... wringing the colour from some weak sunshine

underground maintainance workers taking a fresh-air break in downtown clapham

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i wonder ...

... if they'd let me use their loo half-an-hour before they open ?

this image from Blues Brothers might fit nicely in to "If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger"'s "Frame within the Frame" series of movie stills ...

http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/2010/01/frame-within-frame-4.html

dan and john, i'd like you to have met ...

.... gilbert and george

endangered species ... the goddess of small things is packing away our christmas decorations

peripheral vision

an intriguing poster said: wordsworth's favourite wedding venus

until i'd read it twice more

and then it said: wandsworth's favourite wedding venue

foxy and i made for the bandstand on clapham common before sunrise but did not linger in the biting wind

a shady tree in snowy cuckfield

... and a short walk around cuckfield churchyard ...

of course, burly truckers renounce pathos

... and of course, work goes on, and whatever the weather, the cheese must get through ... especially to our redhill customers

i've long been intrigued by this glimpse of saint katherine's church at mersham ...

... and having just finished the last of my drops ... i parked the truck on the main road and ventured in ...

... and on entering the empty church, was astonished to find this lovely portrait on show ...

it turned out there was about to take place the funeral of a notable gentleman named geoffrey van-hay ... and here he is on the order of service ... as portrayed by wally fawkes

( very many thanks to stuart kuttner for the tip )

Harveys Brewery at Lewes

http://www.harveys.org.uk/

the meteorological radar for the united kingdom ... which you can animate retrospectively

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/


and ... for the european view

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/satpics/latest_IR.html

and for the best global picture i can think of ...

http://www.daylightmap.com/clouds/

on my way to work ... then desperately trying to find my way home again ... and with great relief, arriving home in time to reassure the cats !

train spottin'