der flugtest ... i love clever technology ... and there's something about the enthusiasm of clever technologists that makes me smile

many thanks to metafilter for this link

http://www.wimp.com/thehexacopter/

Montaigne's library ... from Sarah Bakewell's lovely new book

the loved one triumphs on valentine's day ! ... aren't i a lucky boy ?

of love and shadows

forever england ... battersea park station

this week's ration of excitement in whyteleafe ... its either wolves or wabbits ... the locals pays their money and then they takes their choice

the spoils of my toils ... my only public vice is second-hand books ... this week's acquisitions ... the illustrators Badmin and Tunnicliffe

glimpsed "from the corner of my eye" on the edge of crowborough

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Jefferies

87 to 95 Curtain Road, London EC2

apropos de nuffinque

in ticehurst church ... they don't make 'em like this any more

long sign on a pub at warlingham

limpsfield church hides the tomb of mountstuart elphinstone

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Mountstuart_Elphinstone

weeding the ponds ...

.. at the red barn, blindley heath

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rich tea biscuit preservation society

jenny uglow's lunar men ... if you are devouring "chemistry: a volatile history" and "how earth made us" via the BBC iPlayer, then you might also enjoy this book

if i pin this photo on the wall, will the loved one be motivated to finish ironing my shirts ?

adopted ... someone in eccles road had thrown him out with their christmas tree

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