... portends a colourful sunset

the rainbow machine on the bedroom windowsill ...

... illuminates the ancestors in the shadowy hallway

wide awake again at four-thirty on sunday morning ...

her glass, waiting to be filled

wheels within wheels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMByI4s-D-Y&feature=share

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvA7hDh_vhY&list=PL3kG3TM8jFKiuaGCl1IPBH9iEZCZj3oH2

i've got nothing to complain about ... again !

yet another dilemma on a path through life filled with ethical potholes

the first ray of sunshine penetrates the kitchen

there are only three rich tea biscuits left

do you take one ? or two ?

CLUE: you already had two with your first cup of tea only twenty minutes ago

six a.m. yesterday at putney bridge station ... on my way to visit beloved daughter and grandsons ... the only traveller on the platform

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

the sundance kid

downloaded from their website and then edited and laid out using word 2010 ... my method of studying without dialogue ... but some kind of dialogue is always best, if and when you can get it

and then, less than an hour after i had finished, by serendipitous co-incidence, i discovered that michael rosen had just made this programme about walter benjamin for BBCradio4 ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b044b3lj

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

and led me to this archive in berlin ...

http://www.adk.de/de/archiv/archivbestand/literatur/kuenstler/informationen_walter_benjamin_archiv.htm

and the treasure hunt leads me on to this ...

and this ...

and this ...

http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/walter-benjamin-theory-of-distraction.html

and from one fascinating labyrinth to another ...

http://walter-benjamin-bluemchen.tumblr.com/

oh ! and here's michael rosen on desert island discs ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/p0093v8p

leopards are topical since she brought hers home

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/19/living-alongside-leopards-in-mumbai

a little light reading ...

http://www.rugusavay.com/andre-gide-quotes/

and here's one she made earlier ... thirty years earlier !

she's been charity shopping again ...

a view from turner's hill ... no, not that turner

once upon a time, lucy and joe exchanged a series of poems, each of which ended with a question ... now she has posted my very own copy ... i could say that i was impressed and touched in equal measure ... but in fact i was immeasurably impressed and touched

sir robert clayton and his wife, martha, and their son Robert, who had died long before them in his infancy, some say on the very first day of his life

The Clayton Memorial, in the church at Bletchingly, was put up by Sir Robert Clayton very late in his own lifetime, in 1705, in honour of his wife. 

Sir Robert was Lord Mayor of London, Member of Parliament for Blechingley, and a benefactor of St Thomas's Hospital and Christ's Hospital. He lived at Pendell. It is by Richard Crutcher and is considered one of the best examples of the work of that period.  The fine wrought-iron railings are contemporary and were painted blue and gold.


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

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/clayton-sir-robert-1629-1707

I've photographed the memorial before, but had another chance today when forced to take a "tacho break".

rules of reading ... ONE: always read the label before partaking