kat's kradle ... from the always interesting "feuilleton" ...

http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/steinlen04-big.jpg

stonehenge spectacular

http://festival.london2012.com/events/9000963231

nature morte

amen to this ... a exquisitely succinct rant by the poet taylor mali

http://vimeo.com/3829682

you might say i was fond of music ...

3BT

Wages are credited to my empty account.

I turn off the engine in the dairy farm yard and sit quietly watching the resident swallows flying around only six inches above the concrete.

I stop the truck and switch off the engine once more in a narrow country lane as seven schoolgirls squeeze by on their nervous ponies, and I try not to smirk as I recall those Thelwell cartoons.

michael nyman and jane campion on getting the music right ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jul/30/how-we-made-the-piano

a challenge ... how long can you look him in the eye ?

insider view of the creative team for this year's olympic opening

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/29/frank-cottrell-boyce-olympics-opening-ceremony?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fcommentisfree%2Frss+(Comment+is+free)

a change is gonna come ...

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