aunt mavis trying on her mother's glasses

all things must pass ... some with flying colours ... the mourners gave a thunderously rousing three cheers for tina before they hit the bar

the usual suspects ... barcelona, again

stuff at bancffosfelen

whoa ! hang on a minute ! those ain't the white cliffs of dover ! ... backsun

tear jerkingly brilliant ...

viral ... via angus trumble in this instance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyviyF-N23A&feature=youtu.be

braque's ghost

a fully subskribed member of the irreversibly krinkly klub

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."