Monday, March 31, 2014

feeding time in the primates' enclosure

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... many thanx to janet for the lovely picture
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Sunday, March 30, 2014

in highgate cemetery

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Friday, March 28, 2014

joe hyam, late of tunbridge wells ... i'll never meet a sweeter man

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Thursday, March 27, 2014

chancing on the derveni krater's very existence, i was so impressed by this writer that i went online & bought the book ... it was quite hard to find, and very easy for the shippers to lose, but i've just rescued it from the local sorting office ... battered but invitingly readable

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krater http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derveni_krater i couldn't find or obtain the book...
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Sunday, March 23, 2014

an aesthete rampages through the national portrait gallery

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Saturday, March 22, 2014

i cannot subdue my sporting instincts ... please, please, please will someone lend me an elephant ? or a pony ? on second thoughts ... it had better be the elephant

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Thursday, March 20, 2014

that's 64 years running i've missed the fallas in valencia ... maybe next year !

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallas
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

window shopping in pimlico

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Saturday, March 15, 2014

billy bennett ... my role model for 2014

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKhcQmIiJys ... and here are the words for you to learn by heart before you go to ...

Deus, qui nos in tantis periculis constitutos, pro humana scis fragilitate non posse subsistere: da nobis salutem mentis et corporis ut ea quae pro peccatis nostris patimur, te adjuvante, vincamus. Per Dominum ... O God, who knowest that through human frailty, we are not able to subsist amidst such great dangers, grant us health of soul and body, that whatsoever things we suffer because of our sins, we may overcome them by thine assistance

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it has been one of those mind-numbing weeks when letters go unfinished ...

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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

joe hyam has embarked on a pub crawl around the galaxy ... missing you already, joe !

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http://compasses-lucyandjoe.blogspot.co.uk/
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Sunday, March 9, 2014

the loved one procured this edition, re-printed in 1949, from a list of a hundred enjoyable books ... and indeed, the first few pages are a joy

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bowen and a little more information ... http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/f...
Saturday, March 8, 2014

here's alvi !

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... and noa !

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Friday, March 7, 2014

his mum can be trusted to ensure that no animals were harmed during the preparations for this portrait she just sent me ...

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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

i can still spot a mermaid at two hundred paces ...

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after visiting the national maritime museum, we took a long slow walk up to the old greenwich observatory ...

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... where they've always been serious about astronomy

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at last ... a boat i'll be proud to show off around the lagoon in venice ...

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