for once, the loved one's made herself useful ...

... on a sunday spree at the charity shops

a time and a place for everything

gentlemen of the jury

i gave her indoors two perfectly watertight reasons for being reluctant to do the compulsory hoovering

first, it is far too early in the year for spring cleaning

second, we can still see our skirting boards ( some americans call them mop-boards )

i rest my case, m'lud

from flutterbys to effalumps ... saramago offers no cure for insomnia, it was so much fun that i'll have to read it twice

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

stuff chez micawber

queen for a day

kaos the kamouflage kat

apropos de nuffinque ... george and michael collinson in march 2009 ... it seems much too long since i've seen them

outside the paradigm looking in

http://mindhacks.com/2011/02/08/a-liberal-dose-of-controversy/

leading to this ...

http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/jhaidt-819710-haidt-postpartisan-social-psychology/

( artwork irrelevantly and  gratuitously reproduced here without the permission of the dazzling painter rip cronk )

window shopping

Betty Fry has passed away.

probably the last survivor from this group of ?pre-WWII? workers at Malmesbury Silk Mills

here's one i did earlier .... twenty-something years ago ... re-discovered in a friend's house this morning

harris the terrible pirate

a new variation on one of marcel duchamps little jokes in a garden between jermyn street and piccadilly

http://www.hauserwirth.com/exhibitions/893/subodh-gupta/view/

frivverless window dressing at fortnum and mason