helen gahagan in she c.1935

helen gahagan was quite a lady ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Gahagan

A.N.OTHER in a famous disney production c.1937

the loved one has been trying to coax me in to summer colours

just in case there may be one amongst you who doesn't revere steve bell ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/stevebell?INTCMP=SRCH

trouble at the bank ... spanish STYLE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iop2b3oq1O0&feature=share

the ceiling in the cafe at the wellcome collection ... upside down for no good reason

what are YOU wearing to the street party ? union jacks are everywhere in jubilee year but there are better looking materials ( from an occasional series, fashion fabrics to die for, part 99 )

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

about ten years ago, i stripped a dilapidated old english country chair and re-painted it ... the wood seems to have shrunk and i'll have to re-glue it

quoted on BBCradio2 earlier this week ... "if i were two-faced, would i be wearing this one ?"

neuro images ... not to be viewed at meal times

http://neuroimages.tumblr.com/

found with the help of the always excellent ...

http://mindhacks.com/

they've installed new webcams in yosemite valley

http://www.yosemiteconservancy.org/webcams/high-sierra

stop press: burly trucker's top-secret aspirational slimming programme revealed

daniel pink ... fascinating animated run through some counter-intuitive discoveries about what motivates workers and innovators

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u6XAPnuFjJc

link provided by lucy at "being of sound mind"

http://lucewoman.blogspot.co.uk/

regellers at prince's ... provoking a short meditation on welshness and non-welshness

i suppose that, from having spent a part of my childhood amongst people with a welsh way of speaking and thinking, i must have become both sensitized and de-sensitized to some aspects of welshness

consequently i was neither dismayed by the people i encountered last week, nor downhearted by the dilapidation of the towns

indeed, i found myself thinking how much fun it might be to live in a nice little terrace with welsh neighbours on either side ...

tom jones on the one side, perhaps, and catherine zeta-jones on the other !