winter housekeeping ... wringing the colour from some weak sunshine

underground maintainance workers taking a fresh-air break in downtown clapham

non-identical

non-identical

non-identical

i wonder ...

... if they'd let me use their loo half-an-hour before they open ?

this image from Blues Brothers might fit nicely in to "If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger"'s "Frame within the Frame" series of movie stills ...

http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/2010/01/frame-within-frame-4.html

dan and john, i'd like you to have met ...

.... gilbert and george

endangered species ... the goddess of small things is packing away our christmas decorations

peripheral vision

an intriguing poster said: wordsworth's favourite wedding venus

until i'd read it twice more

and then it said: wandsworth's favourite wedding venue

foxy and i made for the bandstand on clapham common before sunrise but did not linger in the biting wind

a shady tree in snowy cuckfield

... and a short walk around cuckfield churchyard ...

of course, burly truckers renounce pathos

... and of course, work goes on, and whatever the weather, the cheese must get through ... especially to our redhill customers

i've long been intrigued by this glimpse of saint katherine's church at mersham ...

... and having just finished the last of my drops ... i parked the truck on the main road and ventured in ...

... and on entering the empty church, was astonished to find this lovely portrait on show ...

it turned out there was about to take place the funeral of a notable gentleman named geoffrey van-hay ... and here he is on the order of service ... as portrayed by wally fawkes

( very many thanks to stuart kuttner for the tip )

Harveys Brewery at Lewes

http://www.harveys.org.uk/

the meteorological radar for the united kingdom ... which you can animate retrospectively

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/


and ... for the european view

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/satpics/latest_IR.html

and for the best global picture i can think of ...

http://www.daylightmap.com/clouds/

on my way to work ... then desperately trying to find my way home again ... and with great relief, arriving home in time to reassure the cats !

train spottin'

i've been waiting for months for an opportunity to photograph this pussy cat near gatwick airport on this kind of a morning

the old chelsea power station from battersea reach

glorious mud

one of this season's more disturbing cards ... photographed during an anxious first half of this afternoon's west ham v arsenal fracas

stop press: local dog discovers fossilized crocodile on clapham common

one thousand and one uses for ... primark's "y-fronts"

business as usual (i) ... interiors by the loved one, of course

business as usual (ii)

business as usual (iii) ... first oxymoron of the new year ... canadian democracy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/dec/31/stephen-harper-prorogue-parliament

empty champagne glasses wilting in the serious moonlight