waiting for a train

near clapham common ...

... on the common ...

... not so common and nowhere near the common

concerning dogs and cats who have nothing better to do on a saturday morning

burgeoning

new truck, histrionic sunrise

before i took this picture, i had just been giggling with one of my favourite customers because one of our night workers must have had a spot of sleepy finger trouble and the chef's invoice was charging eight times the going rate for two kilos of cheddar slices

he and i speculated that the gods themselves must have milked a golden cow on the slopes of mount olympus

howard jacobson on reading dickens, with reference to the bbc's recent travesty of great expectations

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/06/charles-dickens-bbc-howard-jacobson?INTCMP=SRCH

a small sample from the recent present to myself ...

i shouldn' t smirk ...

the loved one and i travelled back from the big hospital in a comfy taxi and i have been promoted to part-time butler/male-nurse for the time being

she requests the use of her laptop so that she can wirelessly watch her favourite hospital saga, "holby city", using the bbc i-player

half way through the episode, ( which i cannot watch, mostly for reasons of snobbery mixed with delusions of cultural grandeur ), i hear her voice rising in a kind of panic ...

 "no, no, no-o-o-oh !"

the television doctors are re-setting a dislocated shoulder, just like hers ... with realistically scrunchy sound effects

very thoughtful of the guardian to issue this leaflet today ... pity the hospital haven't considered the difficulty of finding a nail varnish to match that velcro

file under "gratuitous over-use of the credit card"

... arguably necessary as this book is stuffed with wonders

http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/all/3454556/and-another-thing.thtml

dramatic scenes at st. george's hospital in tooting ... the loved one had a fall nearby and did some damage to a local pavement ... i expect some cockneys scooped her up and trundled her around to A&E on a barrow

at the new st.george's they have a painting by edward bawden of the old st.george's ... now the swanky lanesborough hotel on hyde park corner