a brisk morning on the common

another generous gift from the british tax payer ... but hang on a moment, i am a british tax payer ... although i look more like a member of the BNP

if she really loved me ...

... then she'd have halted the train and made the driver wait whilst she ran back to that little town to buy me some fish and chips ... and she'd have brought me the salt and vinegar from the chip shop counter, too

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