easy to listen to but very hard to sing ... one of my mum's favourite songs

... often aspired to, but never quite equalled ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Y7TpNi3x0&feature=share

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BOFj1F1yRA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omyZpImndc4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fFVeWper4M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAiMhP6bEJg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_hXZhEWPTg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaBCsei72Js

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6umKv23-ok

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm-MDntetkw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiW0ANvFpKA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLiGngS3i4E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2qbmMfNYtk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4F4OCBDogo

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MrlQ-8Ri_s
lovely picture of sinead o connor by jill furmanovsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Furmanovsky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HyLa6a7j6M


... but ella's still my choice, too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Y7TpNi3x0

its easy when you know how ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3HKN-FWNq0

and there are two more bits ...

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

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

the british ( part 99 ) ... no one likes us, but we don't care ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/may/24/tim-walker-photographer-in-pictures#/?picture=409339020&index=0

apropos de nuffinque ... required bank-holiday bedtime reading ... barren and de-populated islands bearing incomparable artistic and imaginative fruits ... cythera and antikythera

http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/pilgrimage-cythera

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cythera_(island)

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15863

... and anti-kythera

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

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130120.html

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

http://www2.ups.edu/faculty/jcevans/Evans%20Carman%20Thorndike.pdf

we have principles ... my workmates assure me that none of them would give her even forty pence for that top ...

verdant ... putney heath failing to live up to it's name

http://www.wpcc.org.uk/

old clients, new premises

at 26 St. John's, Redhill

if a picture paints a thousand words ...

... wish i'd taken this one ... it's from the facebook page of the painter sally stafford

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=524271090943563&set=a.204015809635761.44765.150142721689737&type=1&theater

popped in to the national gallery after work ( as you do ) and ended up squandering some of my well-gotten gains ...

http://www.nationalgallery.co.uk/products/leonardo_da_vinci_painter_at_the_court_of_milan_paperback_exhibition_catalogue/p_1018440

maybe its just two wimmin sitting on ONE rock with their feet in ONE stream and ONE of the wimmin is holding up ONE finger ... the kids might almost be incidental

at the corner of the strand and trafalgar square

thpwing ith thpwung !!!

numbers 97, 98, 99 ... from an occasional series extolling wimmin that never insisted on the compulsory hoovering, the wearing of freshly laundered clothing, or even the daily wash

a silver ghost at ockenden manor

you made me love you ...

in the seventies, i used to drink in a country pub with bare wooden tables where the old men had sung the same songs since the thirties

and we all joined in

one of those songs was first made popular in this country by this lady, grace la rue, just before the first world war, when my ancient drinking friends wuz just liddl babbies

later on, in my lifetime, patsy cline's version was more than good enough ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB5rlL8vDAo

ian beck's blog is a treasure trove ...

he's a well known illustrator and a very good writer with a talent for sharing and teaching, so there's stuff you might never find elsewhere

for instance, here's a preparatory sketch for rex whistler's tate gallery mural












http://ianbeckblog.wordpress.com

"Death Giving Audience"

i wonder if terry pratchett ever encountered this etching ?

... i only did so today

your sunday afternoon owl-spotting session ...

and ...