slouched in to the national portrait gallery with the loved one this morning to admire a few of dame laura knight's paintings ...

http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/laura-knight-portraits/exhibition.php

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/laura-knight/paintings/slideshow#/1

the blonde lady is circus strongwoman joan rhodes ...

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

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

i wish i'd thought of this idea ... portraits of local people printed on canvas and pinned to the trees around a six mile walk

ex-trucker ram ramparsad ... didn't like getting up early once upon a time and is now the world's greatest living gentlemen's hairdresser, some say, possibly maybe ...

clever clogs ( part 999 )

hear ye ! hear ye !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03b2v6m

pascal's lively provincial letters begin at page 141 of this bulky pdf ...

http://www.romancatholicism.org/jansenism%20pdfs/PascalProvincialLetters.pdf

bad company ...

that 'ent rhubub !

the baby noa ...

... soaking up a mass of affection from aunty lesley

mavis has a new admirer ...

... his name is nigel !

the french navy must be on their way ...

... co-incidentally, my sister v. was there on the same day !

simon verity's gravestone for john betjeman

... and, as far as i could see, he never signed his work

sic transit gloria ... the tristan stone

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2247020/Ancient-Tristan-Stone-moved-site-near-Fowey-Cornwalll-make-room-development.html

brainstorming new ideas for alternative energy sources ... treadmills for toddlers ( part ii )

this looks like the ideal site

i'm not completely happy with my previous visualizations for this project

the idea of remote creches where there is plenty of scope for fresh air and noise abatement is important

i once thought of franchising THE NATIONAL CRECHE in the Outer Hebrides but didn't take the idea further because every project needs a little more capital than i could access

maybe we can start up some pilot treadmill farms so that the kiddies can pay for the cost of their own daycare

i'm certain we can rent land off The National Grid adjacent to their existing power stations and distribution sub-stations

in fact the treadmills could be set up INSIDE the barbed wire ...

i thought of several captions for this rarther lovely photograph from 1875, but all were in poor taste

sunday mornings, chez micawber

all dressed up with no place to go

red ...

i'd heard about the project but have only just read the story ... i like it !

... but i confess to including this picture gratuitously ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/nyregion/in-lieu-of-money-toyota-donates-efficiency-to-new-york-charity.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

september, ennit ? let's pretend to be melancholy ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ymGIwdD4A

try a little tenderness ... well, am i the lucky one, or what ?

dennis perez, who i am lucky enough to see for a few minutes most days whilst we check in the delivery at alpha/faraday road at six in the morning, has just brought me some

Pimientos de Padrón from his mother's native village of Herbón 

... and a special galician wine from the neighbourhood

go on ! click on the links ...

http://spanishfood.about.com/od/seasonalspanishfoods/a/padronpeppers.htm

http://spanishfood.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=spanishfood&cdn=food&tm=23&f=00&su=p284.13.342.ip_p830.11.342.ip_&tt=2&bt=5&bts=83&zu=http%3A//revista.consumer.es/web/es/20110901/actualidad/informe1/76081.php

http://www.terrasgauda.com/#terras_gauda/terras_gauda