a conspiracy of cats

read all about it ! read all about it ! mystery patient ( tina schol, the last time i set eyes on her ) wears no-longer-fashionable sweater knitted by photographer's mother ( sylvia forward ) twenty-five years ago whilst scrutinizing terry pratchett interview in today's guardian ... and she's only the very same person that slipped a copy of "mort" to me about twenty years ago

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/oct/14/terry-pratchett-life-writing

ladybird metamorphosis on clapham common

last night the moon light crept into the quietest room, illuminating the dusty floor ... so naturally, my thoughts turned to dandruff

hey nonny no ! only five or six months 'til spring !

roelandt savery's dancing dodos

i don't really know if they danced but i like to think they'd have enlivened the grounds of many of our stately homes had mankind not been so unkind

here's an excellent history of the subject

http://julianhume.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/History-of-the-dodo-Hume.pdf

beware, slimmers ! ... this is an hornazo

baked by santi, the village baker of lagartera in toledo province ... a great man, and a self taught architect, too

eaten, ( probably mostly ), during this past weekend by my cruel friend linda, who must only have photographed it just to make me nostalgic ( i am not jealous, i am not salivating, do you hear me, linda ? )

if i remember rightly, it is a gigantic compartmentalized pasty containing localized fillings of mutton, of chorizo, and a boiled egg

at weekends we assiduously perfect the four R's ... by writing ...

... reading, and relinquishing all responsibilities

the colour purple ... delightful classical scholarship via metafilter

just click on this link for a short essay on antique perceptions by the late william harris

http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/Classics/purple.html

he seems to have been a delightfully free thinker ... and doodler

http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/ss/spot.html

in the past i've struggled and failed to paint with purple

here's an image borrowed from some clever young americans who don't have that problem

http://lotsoferaserdust.deviantart.com/art/Purple-Sea-172639231

enigmas on the way to work ...

http://www.electricsocial.com/

... and on the way home from work

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_God,_Our_Help_in_Ages_Past

apropos de nuffinque

insomniac photography ( contd., )

ely

stuff at ely

inspired victorian medievalism at ely

shut that door !

he's just a big cry-baby

thomas cocke's angels

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3903440.ece