chez micawber ce soir

gadbrook common ... where had been stubble

the tumbrel diaries

worth a visit for THIS !!!

http://angustrumble.blogspot.com/2010/09/gran_8728.html

hurrah !

stuff in framfield church

the aliens have landed

panem et circenses

quite early one morning ...

yet another fabulous image from "shorpy"

http://www.shorpy.com

aesthete's korner ... i still can't make up my mind which to take to my desert island ... maybe this botticelli ...

but probably robert palmer's video

sandhurst church in kent

a short perambulation at betchworth church

a certain person enjoying a certain level of luxury

from an occasional series on body language ... "can you spare a cigarette ?"

ignorance is often more expensive than education ... i was fascinated by this large painting rescued from a ruined monastery at san pedro de arlanza near burgos and cleverly restored

http://art.mnac.cat/fitxatecnica.html;jsessionid=0f34369b92a1c918d6200caffe420f64deaa8eb20d894e8295f156e5369e3302?inventoryNumber=040142-000

and i was completely astonished when i found this picture taken by the rescuers before they started work

you can see where some plasterers had hacked into it before it was rendered over in the bad old days

here is another fragment, now kept in the cloisters section of the metropolitan museum in new york ...