my favourite things ... ten versions in no particular order

John Coltrane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWG2dsXV5HI

Pomplamoose

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

Julie Andrews

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33o32C0ogVM

J rabbit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BqRoCwkH0M

Brad Mehidau

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gClg7L_vqes

Sarah Vaughan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dusavln6Cjw

Dave Brubeck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43T0HdVNOD8

Bobby McFerrin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wqplKtzWpI

Jessica Roemischer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvi10mmwAFk

Stephen Hough

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pih_W62LOVc

remember, lads ... as long as you wash the cheese grater thoroughly after the pedicure, she'll never know ...

peddunts' korner ... two accademias sepparayted by a kommon langwidge

... my blood boiled ! wouldn't yours ?

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4676

shopping hell ... of course, you ageing rock stars already knew that chappell's of bond street is half a mile away in wardour street

... i arrived at the same time as some rich folk who indulged their daughters, aged six and eight i'd guess, by setting them up with a karaoke machine and some posh speakers ... they jumped in to a gleeful rap whose punchline was "you're just a dirty old pervert" ... management soon arrived to adjust the volume control and have a little word

http://www.chappellofbondstreet.co.uk/index.php?page_id=-200000000

clash of the alienated titans ... from conversations at the workface ( part 99 )

sez burly and heavily-stubbled fork-lift driver ...

     "If you think i'm unloading this now, you can kiss my arse"

reply from self, equally unkempt ...

     "Wot ! With MY stubble ?"

recorded in the year i was born ... and probably the first song that "moved" me, five or six years later

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjvHg9cBriw


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

i pass this sign most days in ashdown forest but it is besides a fast stretch of road and i never felt i could spare five minutes until today

today's applied geography tutorial ... tread softly ... or you tread on my dreams

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/01/map-us-mexico-migrant-deaths-border























http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tohono_O'odham

http://humaneborders.org/news/documents/hb_all_deaths_20120428_tabloid_download.pdf

and this link to a fine photographer, David McNew ...

http://www.davidmcnew.com/index.php#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=1&p=1&a=0&at=0

other people's heartaches, even italians 'ave 'em ... "pickaxe, beat softer ... "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCXN-fwl-5s

http://www.italyworldclub.com/italian-songs/regional/liguria/piccun-dagghe-cianin.htm

sunday morning multi-tasking ... writing a letter to Linda whilst perusing Ruari McLean's Thames & Hudson Manual Of Typography ( ... as you do ... )

...NB. not every lexicographer has a clean certificate of mental health ... my online dictionary suggests the existence of an hyphenated adjective ... QUASI-PERUSABLE ... well ! I ask you ... would you adam and eve it ?

easy to listen to but very hard to sing ... one of my mum's favourite songs

... often aspired to, but never quite equalled ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Y7TpNi3x0&feature=share

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BOFj1F1yRA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omyZpImndc4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fFVeWper4M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAiMhP6bEJg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_hXZhEWPTg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaBCsei72Js

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6umKv23-ok

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm-MDntetkw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiW0ANvFpKA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLiGngS3i4E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2qbmMfNYtk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4F4OCBDogo

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MrlQ-8Ri_s
lovely picture of sinead o connor by jill furmanovsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Furmanovsky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HyLa6a7j6M


... but ella's still my choice, too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Y7TpNi3x0

its easy when you know how ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3HKN-FWNq0

and there are two more bits ...

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

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

the british ( part 99 ) ... no one likes us, but we don't care ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/may/24/tim-walker-photographer-in-pictures#/?picture=409339020&index=0

apropos de nuffinque ... required bank-holiday bedtime reading ... barren and de-populated islands bearing incomparable artistic and imaginative fruits ... cythera and antikythera

http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/pilgrimage-cythera

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cythera_(island)

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15863

... and anti-kythera

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

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130120.html

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

http://www2.ups.edu/faculty/jcevans/Evans%20Carman%20Thorndike.pdf

we have principles ... my workmates assure me that none of them would give her even forty pence for that top ...

verdant ... putney heath failing to live up to it's name

http://www.wpcc.org.uk/

old clients, new premises

at 26 St. John's, Redhill

if a picture paints a thousand words ...

... wish i'd taken this one ... it's from the facebook page of the painter sally stafford

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=524271090943563&set=a.204015809635761.44765.150142721689737&type=1&theater

popped in to the national gallery after work ( as you do ) and ended up squandering some of my well-gotten gains ...

http://www.nationalgallery.co.uk/products/leonardo_da_vinci_painter_at_the_court_of_milan_paperback_exhibition_catalogue/p_1018440

maybe its just two wimmin sitting on ONE rock with their feet in ONE stream and ONE of the wimmin is holding up ONE finger ... the kids might almost be incidental

at the corner of the strand and trafalgar square

thpwing ith thpwung !!!