in the limden valley between stonegate and ticehurst

... in response to the question you don't often ask yourself ...

"what makes truck drivers content with their lot ?"

a whitby boat mug .... the last one in the shop ... a nearly birthday present from the loved one

... of course it might take a year or two to settle on the right shelf

banksy is our darling

http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/index.html

no more lon chaney nights !

... that nice doctor frankenstein up at the castle says the package-deal lobotomy with free personality transplant should come in to effect well before the next full moon

whoops ! ... oh dear !

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/greenland-melt.html

i was adamant ...

... but after much tearful argument with older and wiser heads in the drivers' rest room, i have reluctantly conceded that these ladies are neither

a) royalty

nor

b) star players in england's olympic hockey team

picture taken at five o clock this morning opposite norbury nick

lost in the post

a few months ago i bought, piece by piece, here and there, a set of tunnicliffe's four "what to look for ... " ladybird books

i posted them to spain for some small boys whose father was english

they never arrived

i've assembled another set now but i'm photographing every page before i post them

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Tunnicliffe

silent passions found in translation ... via metafilter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUt4W8sE8Ns

masonry, masons' marks, and modern repairs on the aqueduct at Avoncliff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoncliff_Aqueduct

loquacious after a good lunch

some corner that is forever ... nah ! forget it !

bob babbitt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01-2pNCZiNk


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Babbitt

elliott school in putney

... is a bit of fifties architecture that needs to be knocked down because the fabric is so grievously dilapidated, but it is to be conserved as an example of design from that period

they are going to sell half their land for 34 million ( they hope ), and then spend most of it on the restoration

its a nice idea BUT ...

whilst the work proceeds they will need temporary classrooms and so they will stack them up right outside our kitchen window

and we shall lose our distant prospect towards the low slopes of the chiltern incline, beyond the edges of london

they say the buildings will be temporary ... three years only ... because the space they occupy must be made available for a play area

hmmm ! wasn't hadrian's wall temporary ?

http://www.elliott-school.org.uk/_files/66D14D277842D144432DA00E5A121604.pdf

disturbing and distasteful

spanish fire fighters protesting against the new conservative government's economic policies in the city of la coruna

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=497299180296666&set=a.313419795351273.96563.248513638508556&type=1&theater

deeply serious but highly recommended ... the "script" is beautiful

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jul/15/nostalgia-light-chile-pinochet-astronomers?INTCMP=SRCH

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/sightsound/patricio-guzman-extended-interview/

after the rains ... new flowers, new leaves

a word of warning ... don't buy her prosecco from valdobbiadene ...

... she'll only want to drink it again !

busking by stealth in sabadell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBaHPND2QJg

Seid umschlungen, Millionen! Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt! Brüder, über'm Sternenzelt Muss ein lieber Vater wohnen. Seid umschlungen, Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt! Freude, schöner Götterfunken Tochter aus Elysium, Freude, schöner Götterfunken Götterfunken!

Be embraced, you millions! This kiss for the whole world! Brothers, beyond the star-canopy Must a loving Father dwell. Be embraced, This kiss for the whole world! Joy, beautiful spark of the gods, Daughter of Elysium, Joy, beautiful spark of the gods Spark of the gods!

their prosecco is very easy to drink but not nearly cheap enough to do so frequently

remember lads, on her birthday, the only right and proper thing ...

... is to buy her a fitch