spain's second goal is a sweet classic of "deadly" simplicity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C32C0S-uww

apropos de nuffinque

daylight robbery at the charity shop ... an un-put-down-able page turner

3BT … this week, though not all in one day

A green woodpecker with a red flash flies out of an oak wood across the country road on that low dipping flight that might take him up and down a series of invisible waves … and quickly disappears across a wide meadow towards another wood, swooping between two placid horses, one black, one white.

Whist stopping to admire an autumn flowering magnolia at Ockenden Manor, I marvel at the huge creamy petals and then tilt my head further back to watch a buzzard drawing first one small figure of eight in a deep blue sky, and then another, and then another.  His wings hardly move, but each time I think I see him curl the most extreme feather tips of one wing, and then the other.

At the perimeter of Gatwick Airport, whilst the never ending procession of heavy jets carve their noisy paths along the runway, only fifty yards away from them, a kestrel dances on air before making a long low swoop in to the rough grass.

extemporized speed warning in ashdown forest ... where 284 deer died on the roads last year

wouldn't it make a fantastic valentine's card ?

http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2013/10/07/la-belle-et-la-bete-posters/

good old ibm

chuff stuff

in fracking country, that's a lot of woolly jumpers ...

... just north of balcombe

exhibit A.

exhibit B.

wow !

http://50watts.com/Riot-in-Coloring-Book-no-9

she never told me she'd been an artist's model ...

garn ! frack off !

two heavy lorries leaving the balcombe drilling site this morning

charity shopping trophies

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

Où sont les neiges ... ?

attagirl !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miCDPzJHvjk&feature=youtu.be

when alvi and noa eventually conspire to ask the trick question, "mummy ! how did time begin ?", the answer will be at her fingertips ...

http://vimeo.com/57843146

doh ! simon singh gushes ...

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/sep/22/the-simpsons-secret-formula-maths-simon-singh

if you've got it, flaunt it ! joan rhodes ...

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVvQ9pIo6_I

mugshot