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'

i've been waiting for months for an opportunity to photograph this pussy cat near gatwick airport on this kind of a morning

the old chelsea power station from battersea reach

glorious mud

one of this season's more disturbing cards ... photographed during an anxious first half of this afternoon's west ham v arsenal fracas

stop press: local dog discovers fossilized crocodile on clapham common

one thousand and one uses for ... primark's "y-fronts"

business as usual (i) ... interiors by the loved one, of course

business as usual (ii)

business as usual (iii) ... first oxymoron of the new year ... canadian democracy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/dec/31/stephen-harper-prorogue-parliament

empty champagne glasses wilting in the serious moonlight

thankfully, life is so much more complex and intriguing than death ... happy new year, everyone !

vouet's "father time overcome by love, hope, and beauty"

the norbury at four in the morning ... a shangri-la on the A23

http://www.thenorbury.com/

brrrr!

the antique shop in eccles road early on a frosty morning

there ain't no postcards for sale, and they still won't allow you to take photographs, but i've just discovered they have a remaindered book in the shop ...

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/history/sculptures-and-mosaics/

http://www.nationalgallery.co.uk/shop/product_display.asp?ProductID=525323

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Anrep


i took these pictures surreptitiously before the official finger was wagged

compton pauncefoot

not yer average barrister

window by hugh easton

... and son ? ... no, nephew !

WILLIAM MURRAY MASON, Flight Sergeant (Pilot) 932002

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
who died on Monday 23 March 1942 . Age 21 .

http://www.larigan.com/graves/mason.htm

presumably, the windows were commisioned by William's father, the second baron ...

Lt.-Col. Glyn Keith Murray Mason, 2nd Baron Blackford1

b. 29 May 1887, d. 31 December 1972

http://thepeerage.com/p14370.htm

window by hugh easton

i hope laura won't mind if you read her letter to justin which i found in south cadbury churchyard ... look closely at what she holds

http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=1672937267

boxing day ... and the loved one is heading for the sales

and if you stand near enough to it, on tip toe at midnight ... and hold your breath whilst the clock strikes twelve ... then the tree will be filled with singing birds

near broad oak in wealden sussex

the dog and i stroll in the moonlight, oblivious to the cold ... she's the blur at the right of the picture

spot the fallen star

the universal mutt engrossed in her instinctive and perpetual search for the archetypal meta-wabbit

earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone

holy trinity church on clapham common ... at four this morning on my way to work

this church has a notable history in connection with the abolition of slavery

http://htc.churchinsight.com/Groups/31509/Holy_Trinity_Clapham/History/Clapham_Sect/Clapham_Sect.aspx