tra-la-la ! ...

... spring is nearly here !

tea for two ... twelve or thirteen sugars, please ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxadblDT6zI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WupsWuMHUg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ytok8dRGEc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VXjZu_9KmY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjYNMKvUyXI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAG_Yo8709o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY29KA1BpWg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEYvUzQrVvg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAWlyg44oIQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5KBIrFvLk8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoI_d_gQ62g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9C83jtfOcI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4F6gpE0X04


















http://tolpuddlemartyr.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/black-basalt-teapot-english-c1800.html#comment-form

uprooted and transplanted to the back of the sofa, it would make an excellent reading lamp for my bleary old eyes

the countryside in surrey is crowded with bored looking horses

working dialogue ...

Winston, a sweet natured gentleman from Jamaica who is still working his night shift when I’m starting my early, too early, morning shift … who I once glimpsed as a shadow dancing around his car and its sound system in the dark before going home from his fifty-something hour week of hard labour … tells me how he was cornered last Sunday evening by a giant colleague with a monologue that had a notoriously predictable course to run …

“you got the complete script then ?”,  I asked him, “chapter and verse ?” 

And Winston replies … “Yesss sir !  From Genesis to Revelations !” and he roars with laughter.

eros sleeping at the met ... with a helpful narrative

http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/enamored

touch synaesthesia ... it may be new to scientists, but not, i suspect, to some artists

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16298-first-cases-of-touchemotion-synaesthesia-discovered.html

some details from tom denny's windows in tewkesbury abbey

Installed in 2002, the windows mark the nine hundredth anniversary of the coming of the Benedictine monks to Tewkesbury in 1102. Their theme is the Benedictine motto ‘Laborare est Orare’ (to work is to pray).

http://www.tciwh.org.uk/church-activities/tom-denny.pdf

an amusing little almond cake, pleasingly moist with a covering of cashew flakes, created by the arch kitchen goddess sheila evans, at bancffosfelen on wednesday last

granary at aldbourne

http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-310540-granary-west-of-farmhouse-aldbourne-warr

tristan's belated technical & aesthetic catch-up ... LED illumination ... it really does make a difference to your appreciation of colour and texture in the paintings at the national gallery

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/about-us/press-and-media/press-releases/paintings-newly-illuminated-at-the-national-gallery

http://ledsmagazine.com/news/8/4/13

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/9115741/National-Gallery-saves-Titian-masterpiece-for-the-nation.html

although the hooks was rarther tricky

i don't have a television, or take much interest normally ...