the first lord cobham in lingfield church ...

Zhoen ...

finished her blog today with this sentence ...

"Church bells pealing, a wonderful sound, like train whistles and ship horns. "

so it only seems natural to plunder this picture from Shorpy ...

... and then add a link to another aspect of my most favourite railroad photographer's work ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbzAJoW34DM

... headphones if you have them !

schrodinger's old tom cat drops by to cash his weekly reality cheque

schrodinger's old tom cat re-considers HIS options

kamouflage klasses

"pooh ?", said christopher robin, "do you suppose the french spread marmite on their hot buttered crumpets ?" "almost certainly" said pooh, "& we'll ask the sommelier to recommend a good wine !"

steve bell goes for the jugulars ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cartoon/2012/oct/17/obama-romney-debate-steve-bell?INTCMP=SRCH

word verification troubles ...

I made eight unsuccessful attempts to leave the following simple comment on the FÜNFFINGERPLÄTZE's blog after she'd written about a pang of food nostalgia ...

"Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit"

Grrr !  I just can't read those wobbly letters ...

mother nature's riposte ... a second flower twenty-four hours after the first

... i had to stand on tiptoe with one foot on the dog's lead and arms stretched uncomfortably high to get this picture

health and safety

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USoFfr4K13Y

you'd think mother nature would have better things to do ...

someone has catalogued the inscriptions on the beams of montaigne's library/study

http://lazenby.tumblr.com/post/1599204509/a-catalog-of-montaignes-beam-inscriptions

temptation rears its pretty head in danehill

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

portals in lavender walk