the joy of temperance on clapham common

the shady dog, as it turned out, had an owner ...

he lay in the sun with a group of seven or eight other alcoholics ...

i hadn't noticed them until he began to shout ...

he wanted me to erase the picture, or pay him five pounds for the privilege of taking it ...

you can probably guess how widely i smiled

least said, soonest mended ... part one

least said, soonest mended ... part two

blimey! here's one i'd forgotten ...

a friend just showed me this little photo of a forgotten painting ... ten years ago, a posh theatrical costume designer in brighton, a wonderful woman named fay, had asked me to design a business card, but i was in such a state of mental prostration that i never got past this sketchy stage of visualising it as a linear painting ... sorry fay !

made by gordon whittle

unchokeable

violet and octavius forward pose for an itinerant photographer with their children in 1924

... llewellyn, jack, mavis, peggy, and colin

almost certainly the best daughter in the universe

sheila evans has conjured up a gooseberry cheesecake

south bank

on the sunny side of mickleham bridge

the shady side of mickleham bridge

late spring cleaning ... colin and sylvia cool 'orf

twenty five years on ... i'd like to thank jason vater for introducing me to the music of misty in roots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCYL1I40cbo

beddingham church

inside beddingham church

trooper george weaver and farmer roy eastwood remembered in beddingham church

detective inspector aesop tracks down the usual suspects

the bell tower at ockley church

during a walk on clapham common with foxy

stringstrangpamadillalanapanaragtagrignumbumanarykimo

when i was small-ish, sylvia taught me the longest word she knew .... only later did i realize that SHE'D MADE IT UP !

tajo sunrise

possibly the most handsome dog in lagartera

corpus christi in lagartera ( i )