stuff in the VandA

the illusion of winter ... and whilst i'll never be tempted to join the english defence league, i'd like to assert my national right to fry liver and onions at six in the morning

at sheffield park, flouncing in ...

... flaunting herself ...

... and flouncing out again

appropriately, on armistice day, i found this document on display in the new museum on the bluebell line at sheffield park station

her wonderful daughter alex just told me that tina's gone ... last week i had promised her that paul newman would be waiting by the gate to lead her directly, hand in hand, to the bluebell wood

...and this is what was playing on the radio when i got the message

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri2CzfI84Wk&feature=related

i had often wondered why none of my country friends make jam with spindleberries

http://www.thepoisongarden.co.uk/atoz/euonymus_europaeus.htm

bags of crisps were packed in tins like this when i started school in 1954 ... i found this one in an alley way behind a restaurant this afternoon ... and despite all our wet weather it was as bone dry as if someone had just put it out

http://www.flickr.com/photos/castlekay/2630591987/

burwash rose ... a generous gift from it's maker ...

http://www.traditionalcheesedairy.co.uk/news.htm

... many thanks ... we'll savour it when the loved one gets home this evening

romance open brackets love close brackets divorce marriage

some mildly discordant domestic discourse which failed to ruin our weekend ...

He: "Do you know ?  I think you've never, ever, polished my shoes for me !"

She: "You might like to get on the internet this evening and start researching ... like ... where your nearest soup kitchen will be."

bronze stuff in the ashmolean

a well-travelled saddle

miracles of modern humanity ( chapter 99 ) ... roy and laura

shameless ashmoleans

alas ! poor rudolf ... i knew him well !

thinks: i haven't owned a comb for thirty years

trucker's rest break on a dark day in denbies vinyard

i am sipping from a small glass of torres diez in memory of my sweet friend george collinson who passed away this morning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV0RtQ_BOT0