crossword hero araucaria allows the stiff upper lip to carry on smiling despite the most difficult circumstance

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/2013/jan/11/crossword-araucaria-reveals-dying-cancer


http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/cryptic/25842


http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,438558,00.html

art is a lie ... the full quote

http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/19467113501

reluctantly, i'm putting off "the light of amsterdam" until i've finished kahneman's "thinking, fast and slow"

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

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/04/light-of-amsterdam-david-park-review

nostalgic for utah, i googled "factory butte", and "discovered" ian parker, rare gent & exemplar

http://parkerlab.bio.uci.edu/nonscientific_adventures/Bio.htm

http://parkerlab.bio.uci.edu/images_movies_presentations/Node_antigen.htm

etc, etc.

dean potter ... nuff said

http://vimeo.com/56298775

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

Foxy ... RIP

for no particular reason, other than my pleasure ... utamaro

glueing day in SW15

you don't have to be saintly to be spanish ... but this man knows when to do the right thing

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/05/pamplona-spain-banks-homes

outbreak of egotistical tweeting in dorset ... culprit brilliantly photographed by marilyn peddle

fearful symmetry ?

stuff at the V&A

'ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go !

you don't have to be mad to be spanish ...

.... but it probably helps

http://elpais.com/elpais/2012/12/28/album/1356714795_886253.html#1356714795_886253_1356716937

can't come to the pub ... too busy working on my re-make of swan lake ...

memo:  must have a word with the costume supervisor ...

whappen ifn you slice de menger sponge ? ... of course, i guessed completely wrong

https://simonsfoundation.org/multimedia/mathematical-impressions-the-surprising-menger-sponge-slice/

from the work of clever clogs george hart ... http://www.georgehart.com/rp/rp.html

when you get home at dusk in london in winter ... you can watch the day unfolding all over again ... in yosemite

http://www.yosemiteconservancy.org/webcams/yosemite-falls

apropos de nuffinque

on her way to the sales

we waited until we had watched the first forty-five minutes of singin' in the rain before we opened the prosecco ... at 0945 GMT