around clapham junction, on the morning of the london marathon, the skies are filling with what john arlott used to call "ominous portent" ...

... just before that paradoxical moment when fresh falling rain smells of dust

if an electioneering politician should happen to venture up our stairs, i shall ask them to clarify their party's policy on legalising polygamous marriage in putney after the next election

foxy demonstrates ... the correct way to approach a dangerous looking blade of grass

new oak leaves on clapham common

if you loved photography ... you'd always be browsing through the site managed by "shorpy"

http://www.shorpy.com/node/7738?size=_original

my sympathies are entirely with the dragon

... having been influenced by stan freeberg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBcASC9VqzY


thanx to linda for reminding me to do my patriotic duty

horsted keynes again

horsted keynes again again

horsted keynes again again again

a curious co-incidence in ashdown forest

monday night i copied this Richard Avedon photo from the informative Art Knowledge News website in to my voluminous scrapbook

tuesday morning, less than twelve hours later, i stopped to investigate a standing stone that is just visible from my route through ashdown forest since the last big clearance of brambles and bracken ...

and after leaving the truck at the nearest lay-by, this is what i found ...

which made me contemplate that curious feeling we get whenever we unexpectedly share an experience with people who were always distant and are no longer with us

whilst some sleep and dream cheese, others have to live cheese !

as a cheese delivery driver and a connoisseur of vivid dreaming i was pleased to come across this discussion in one of my favourite blogs

http://5fingerplatz.blogspot.com/2010/04/kase-essen-und-der-schlaf.html

http://www.hb-foods.co.uk/

selected quotes from the latest re-print of the new emotional blackmailers handbook

"everything i haven't done was for your own good"

"i've put my dirty socks in the laundry basket if you're interested"

blimey, charlie ... how sentimental can you get ?

click on the link and wallow ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjCk8kRFhC4&feature=fvw

they've all been invited to linda crabb's birthday BBQ

the curtain falls on the last scene of an old favourite

more stuff from penshurst

robert sidney's monument in penshurst church

"my flesh also shall rest in hope" ... psalm 16, verse 9 ... inside the south entrance to penshurst church yard

museums like the V&A teach us that in fashion what goes around will eventually come around ...