ice cream seventh heaven

the loved one made a compote of blackberries and blueberries using a little bit of demerara sugar

she served it to me in a small dish it with two scoops of lime and coconut ice-cream

the final killer touch that blew it and me into the fifth dimension was that half a teaspoon of italian licore di limone

stuff ... and a certain person

exemplary photography ... the boy dun good again, part 99 ... i love this photographer

http://esmola.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/flores-paxaros-entre-o-abalo-e-a-baixamar/#more-2626

bath night chez micawber

i said to that dietician ... i told 'er straight ... i'm only doin' my patriotic duty !

apropos de zero

mayfield village sign

http://www.britannia.com/history/legend/dundevil.html

the nicest thing about going to mayfield is collecting the cheese from alsop & walker ... the mayfield cheese on the racks is matured for six months and is probably the best cheese you'll ever taste

twin peaks

the ivy league ... oh what a tangled web they'll weave

a quick dash in to burwash church to re-visit meg lawrence's millenium window

having visited lieutenant crundwell at groombridge ( see below ), i stopped to say "hullo" to the ghost of lieutenant john kipling at burwash, and found a small embroidery among the flowers at the foot of the pinnacle

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/nov/04/books.military

on a dusty window ledge in burwash church

( not THE ) groombridge church is small with big windows but i cannot get in today ... instead, i find an interesting new grave near the bottom of the churchyard

http://www.speldhurst.org/church/groom%20history.asp

"whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent" ... lieutenant toby crundwell, aged 25, RIP

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Soldier-Toby-hit-killed-train/article-2070012-detail/article.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus

if you go down in the woods today ...

the woods are a-buzzing again

THE INTRODUCTORY DISCUSSION IN A SINGLE SENTENCE FOR THIS WEEK'S SERMON ON THE HEREAFTER TRANSCRIBED FROM AN ANCIENT PAPYRUS JUST RECENTLY DISCOVERED AMONGST THE BONES OF SABRE TOOTHED TIGERS AND WOOLLY MAMMOTHS IN A CAVE CLOSE TO THE SNOWLINE IN A DENSELY FORESTED AREA OF PUTNEY HEATH.

Verily, I say unto you a Woman’s Work is never done and so, because they are innumerable, one may confidently deduce that preserving the immaculate perfection of the dazzling heavenly hosts’ gleaming pristine seamless raiment might require considerable logistical ingenuity from His Launderers in Eternity yet it can never be beyond the compass of the Almighty to organize and implement effective and practical procedures and so for this reason I feel encouraged to anticipate that the infinite ranks of heavenly choirs ascending ever upwards through the gilded clouds in to the inexpressible azureity can be discreetly re-robed by sensibly mingling in amongst their number those several blissful regiments of joyously resurrected multi-tasking housewives of all ages who will effortlessly contrive to sing their loud hosannas in matchless sweet and voluptuous harmonies whilst they too are borne aloft amidst heaven’s perpetual sunbeams unto everlasting ecstasy behind their God-given celestial ironing boards.

recommended sunday viewing ... the vatican have put an interactive view of the sistine chapel online ... do try it out ... saves a lot of neck ache ... wonderful

http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html

the renovation of room 46b at the V&A, the second castings gallery, is nearing completion and you are allowed in again