wimmin in white ... after mardecortesbaja, the late lamented las vegas blogger, put up this photo of marilyn monroe which i had never seen, i began to accumulate pictures of wimmin in white ... they are still accumulating

... and although i came to no serious conclusion ...

i will always leave the elegant mme recamier to have the final word, so to speak

something for the weekend ...

grampy and the sundance kid

alvi listening to the sea on the new stereo ... all suggestions for beginning an audio and musical collection will be gratefully considered

http://shop.bl.uk/mall/productpage.cfm/BritishLibrary/_ISBN_9780712351119/-/Waves%3A-The-Sounds-of-Britain%27s-Shores-%28audio-CD%29

charity shop trophies ... having dashed into the middle of a traffic jam in reigate with a missing cheese for cullenders, i was irresistibly drawn to the charity shop next door ... choosing these took all of thirty seconds !

bumble bees ... bimbling

a change in the mid-day sky ...

... portends a colourful sunset

the rainbow machine on the bedroom windowsill ...

... illuminates the ancestors in the shadowy hallway

wide awake again at four-thirty on sunday morning ...

her glass, waiting to be filled

wheels within wheels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMByI4s-D-Y&feature=share

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvA7hDh_vhY&list=PL3kG3TM8jFKiuaGCl1IPBH9iEZCZj3oH2

i've got nothing to complain about ... again !

yet another dilemma on a path through life filled with ethical potholes

the first ray of sunshine penetrates the kitchen

there are only three rich tea biscuits left

do you take one ? or two ?

CLUE: you already had two with your first cup of tea only twenty minutes ago

six a.m. yesterday at putney bridge station ... on my way to visit beloved daughter and grandsons ... the only traveller on the platform

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

the sundance kid

downloaded from their website and then edited and laid out using word 2010 ... my method of studying without dialogue ... but some kind of dialogue is always best, if and when you can get it

and then, less than an hour after i had finished, by serendipitous co-incidence, i discovered that michael rosen had just made this programme about walter benjamin for BBCradio4 ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b044b3lj

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

and led me to this archive in berlin ...

http://www.adk.de/de/archiv/archivbestand/literatur/kuenstler/informationen_walter_benjamin_archiv.htm

and the treasure hunt leads me on to this ...

and this ...

and this ...

http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/walter-benjamin-theory-of-distraction.html

and from one fascinating labyrinth to another ...

http://walter-benjamin-bluemchen.tumblr.com/

oh ! and here's michael rosen on desert island discs ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/p0093v8p

leopards are topical since she brought hers home

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/19/living-alongside-leopards-in-mumbai