the hills are alive etc ... hi-res jungfrau webcam

http://panocam.skiline.cc/lauberhorn

the only way is up ...

Keep It Simple, Stoopid ! lo-tech cavity floor via a favourite design site ...

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2013/06/30/mozilla-japans-new-open-source-office/

http://nosigner.com/case/mozilla-factory

hurrah for a proper human being !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mujica

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whFm75ORPbE

travellin' light ...

"Marooned three years agone," he continued, "and lived on goats since then, and berries, and oysters. Wherever a man is, says I, a man can do for himself. But, mate, my heart is sore for Christian diet. You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted, mostly--and woke up again, and here I were."

wholesale AND retail !

... if only i had my own business ... i could buy all my wigs wholesale !

last sunset of the month of june

too hot to spend much time outdoors ... a good day to write letters or postcards

c'st magnifique ... mais ce n'est pas la guerre ... part-time genius dave okonski sends his passengers to certain doom ... mmm ! well i may have exaggerated slightly !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_NAMON4S52Y

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

http://cnum.cnam.fr/CGI/fpage.cgi?4KY28.45/373/100/556/0/0

looking down over the victorian roofscape of roupell street from a window at waterloo east

http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/C5073E52-EED2-4DC2-A995-20030D8EA07B/0/RoupellStreetCAstatement2007publisher.pdf

it's easy when you know how ... in japan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVCdLi6FGVg

andrew hinder ... post relapsarian hero, staggered in to london for an encounter with its cultural treasures, and me

the dog is in a street called lower marsh, by waterloo station

the poster features a painting by mark gertler ... one of his best, i think .... an attendant once refused me permission to photograph it in leicester museum, alleging it was privately owned

http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/exhibitions/now_on_show/a_crisis_of_brilliance.aspx

... and from a press release comes this image ...

where we saw johnny anger and the wild ones ...

beeches barn in cirencester

democracy in action, ( part 99 ) ... "network hygeine" ... let's just assume the lady has clean underwear

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/28/us-army-blocks-guardian-website-access

this just popped up via metafilter ... it might induce calm while you're fretting over your quantum physics homework

http://toogl.es/#/view/Ej5rGGTHy54

grrr ! ... i'm not jealous !

stuff in the british museum

tell me where is fancy bred ?

a feller that i deliver stuff to in crowborough has the most distressing black-eye

in reply to the inevitable enquiry, he says he was sweeping at a ball that lifted and came up from the edge of the bat

i then wondered what the scorer entered on the sheet

"retired, hurt", of course ... but there was some consolation ...  a "sixty, not out" score does wonders for his batting average at this stage of the season

so hubris and nemesis are still the inseparable twins

and what will you be nibbling at sunset ?

a letter arrives with a picture of george best ....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22455873

someone with a paintbrush has done their best ...

but they've failed to capture the heathcliffe/celtic blackness of his hair and eyebrows and the comparative pallor of his usual complexion ... and, to steal a phrase from a proper writer ... the lovely bones



















i saw him play a couple of times

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

i saw jimi hendrix play a couple of times

hendrix was better value for money

pitter patter-patter, pitter patter-patter ( i )