last year, i was rarther pleased when a friend gave me this old plate ...

... and then i spotted two new planters in the window of the belle vue by clapham common underground station

redbrick

today is martin luther king day .... say what you will .... he did !

http://www.buzzfeed.com/hnigatu/17-martin-luther-king-jr-quotes-you-never-hear

putney heath in winter ... if this goes on i might have to eat the neighbour's dog, or the neighbour

nice design ...

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2012/12/13/optical-glass-house-hiroshi-nakamura/

apropos de nuffinque ... centaurs

... to be continued ...

3BT

At first light, almost an an hour before sunrise, I am driving up out of some darker than black woods into the deep blue sky, and as I emerge on the highest part of Ashdown Forest there is just the smokiest glimmer of red on the horizon before the road winds inky blue down again towards the next mass of trees ... and a big headed owl flashes fast across my path in the headlights.

Later, Radio3 are playing an Astor Piazzola big band sort of tango from a concert in the early 1980s, just as the truck is rolling and yawing along a humpy-dippy Wealden village street and, for three blissful seconds, sending my arse and shoulders right out of the seat and twisting and bouncing my whole body exactly in time to the music.

At mid-day, an old oak stands thickly frosted in the middle of an unploughed field on the Downs above Merstham and it casts an oval grey shadow some distance across the ochre-coloured stubble, in the middle of which shadow the remaining thick frost somehow reflects the sky's pale blueness.

the thing i like most about small children is how very easy it is for me to steal their sweets

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 ?