morning in the kitchen

3BT

in the sunlit "bare ruined choir" of the sycamore tree outside the kitchen window at mid-day ...

1.  four fluffy squirrels chasing one another in the "heart" of the tree

2.  five velvety jackdaws having a quiet chat whilst they explore the topmost branches

3.  four resting parakeets, brilliant as jewels, quietly contemplating the prospect of their journey north to the thames

pratchett minus the jacket ...

job done !

out of the high deserts, the navajo times is one of my favourite newspapers ... it's weekly police blotter section is an horrifically mesmeric catalogue of human disasters

http://www.navajotimes.com/

http://www.navajotimes.com/news/2013/1213/122613blotter.php#.Urvf3fRdV8E

and the distribution network is a geography lesson in itself

http://www.navajotimes.com/contact/locations.php

light at the end of the tunnel ...

a little light reading while you're all watching the queen's speech ...

readers' kompetition ... guess which presents were packed by santa's favourite elf, and which by the fat elf with the prosecco befuddled fingers

i wasn't going to open this bottle, but then i learned that heidi, joe hyam's missus, had also died ...

lolita sevilla RIP

http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2013/12/16/actualidad/1387206129_336555.html

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHnDQf5d1JQ

despite every intention of getting up early, the loved one had to wake me, shake me from a complicated dream about being late ...

... much too complicated to explain such a dream here, multiple levels of visual metaphors, mistaken and transformed identities, metamorphoses, changing agendas not just hidden but well and almost truly buried, etc, etc ...

i rushed off to the flaming 14 bus at flipping quarter to seven instead of farting quarter to six ... and blinking well forgot the absolutely bloomin' necessary bleedin' tripod

so here are some sub-standard hand-held pics of fortnum and mason's windows, somewhat lacking in designer's wit or exuberance compared with previous years, i'm sorry to say

life on the ( oh my god, just look at the dust ! ) shelf ...

censorship and habeus corpus re-visited perennially ( part 99 )

http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/12/why-russell-brand-banned-gitmo

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/nov/15/clive-stafford-smith-my-family-values-law

the white sheep of the family ...