i'll be on my way to madrid two weeks from today ... but what am i going to wear ?

http://www.sombrerosgorras.es/gorras.htm

pulchinello's wedding ... drawing by domenico, son of giovanni battista tiepolo

stop press: my lovely old aunt mavis has died

last of the bunch ...

or maybe not quite the last ... jack forward ( centre front row ) last heard of in australia a while ago

don't even ask ...

http://necspenecmetu.tumblr.com/post/47848707047/lombard-school-cats-instructed-in-the-art-of

mythologies beget cognitive dissonances in my numbed skull ... because i've only just found out that saturn and father time are one and the same

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/giovanni-battista-tiepolo-an-allegory-with-venus-and-time

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/57.619.5

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

so, my question about the goya is ... do you really think that's a boy's bottom ?

h-h-h-hardly h-h-hung over at hall, h-h-has it h-h-h-happens !

so stegosaurus and triceratops might not have enjoyed the same kinds of music

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

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

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

end-of-term cultural studies exam ... compare and contrast

no ! no ! no ! please don't tickle me ... i'll confess ... it doesn't take much to make me smirk out loud

sir john tavener, since deceased, took part in a fascinating discussion about george herbert broadcast only yesterday ... with andrew marr, john drury, and jeanette winterson

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03gv7xm

i'm lost in space ... as usual !

the other tom jones ...

http://www.arthermitage.org/Thomas-Jones/Landscape-with-Dido-and-Aeneas.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jones_(artist)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGQq3HcOB0Y

born under a bad sign ...

me, when i had a beard, ( i'd forgotten that beard ! ) and had borrowed pete clarke's seersucker jacket to photograph ann brown's wedding ... for which usage i almost certainly never thanked him properly