Sunday, May 16, 2010

recommended sunday viewing ... the vatican have put an interactive view of the sistine chapel online ... do try it out ... saves a lot of neck ache ... wonderful

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http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html
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Saturday, May 15, 2010

the renovation of room 46b at the V&A, the second castings gallery, is nearing completion and you are allowed in again

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room 46b ( part 2 )

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room 46b ( part 3 )

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room 46b ( part 4 )

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room 46b ( part 5 )

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olympian social workers veto stygian bath nights

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a bit of local colour at clapham junction

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a flying horse at the edge of clapham common

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five to four ... my working days begin here

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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

tropic of croydon

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Sunday, May 9, 2010

HEROES

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In the mid-afternoon heat of last summer our bus was creeping up West Hill towards home and we were passing the Wandsw...
Thursday, May 6, 2010

a disused pub, "the neville crest and gun", awaiting renovation at eridge green

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the neville family was already rarther posh in the 15th century and eventually becam...
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

how they'll spend your money ( chapter nine hundred and ninety-nine ) ... would you care to guess where petrol costs $400 dollars a gallon ?

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http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2009/12/17/burning-borrowed-money-in-americas-wars/
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Monday, May 3, 2010

passing one's local department store, one is immediately reminded of the late philip larkin ...

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http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=7108

easy when you know how

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there was a fabulous free concert in the national gallery on friday evening featuring violinist joo yeon sir, cellist jea...

brrr! its a "staying-in-and-reading-a-bloody-good-book" sort of a weekend

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we went to the bfi to see agnes varda's "cleo, from 5 to 7" ... its a lovely film, tender & humane ... and its on for another week

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

waiting for the night bus to brixton

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Barely awake after a sleepless night with Sarah Waters' novel, The Night Watch, I sat in the darkness waiting for the four o’clock bus t...
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

not waving, nor drowning

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