a church mouse in easby

alfie, the yorkshire cat, is disappointed by grapes .... what's it all about, alfie ?

yorkshire ? what has yorkshire ever done for us ?

the ghosts of christmas ... present, past, and fuchsia ... the pantomime in the village hall at hunton-in-bedale

http://www.flickr.com/photos/78468515@N00/sets/72157629147374797/show/

sculpture by jaume plensa at the nicest "service area" on the M1, only one mile from junction 38 and only a mile from the poxy woolley edge service area where we refused to pay £3.29 for a small coffee

http://www.ysp.co.uk/

we are away to yorkshire for a few days ... perhaps we should take sandwiches

were he to have been re-incarnated, titian might possibly have enjoyed this little spectacle ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o9RGnujlkI

do you think the internet is harming my eyesight ?

... once, in a hotel room in barcelona, we were channel hopping and found the addams family, mind-bogglingly dubbed in to italian but sub-titled in spanish ... subsequently the loved one found me a DVD set ... from here on gomez will be my role-model

an insomniac contemplating his lectern

de mort, en passant ...

as i shuffle wearily from the workplace towards the bus stop, i walk along a rough and narrow pavement beside a very busy arterial road to the crossroad and am slowly overtaken by three highly polished stretch-limos, daimler limousines, each stuffed with well-groomed people, all of them expensively dressed in black ... it must have been a very smart funeral ... the convoy halts at the lights, one, two, three ... and there beside me, in the back seat of the very last car, a young man and woman, immaculately dressed for mourning, are snogging passionately


i googled "death and the maiden" after writing this and discovered this  lovely image, which i have reproduced here without permission:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Christensen

do you want it good or do you want it tuesday ? ... this is VERY good

http://www.benpentreath.com/shop/books/do-you-want-it-good-or-do-you-want-it-tuesday-by-ruth-artmonsky/prod_1608.html

nothing in the kitchen is nearly so stainless as my reputation, maybe

waiting for a train

near clapham common ...

... on the common ...

... not so common and nowhere near the common

concerning dogs and cats who have nothing better to do on a saturday morning

burgeoning

new truck, histrionic sunrise

before i took this picture, i had just been giggling with one of my favourite customers because one of our night workers must have had a spot of sleepy finger trouble and the chef's invoice was charging eight times the going rate for two kilos of cheddar slices

he and i speculated that the gods themselves must have milked a golden cow on the slopes of mount olympus

howard jacobson on reading dickens, with reference to the bbc's recent travesty of great expectations

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/06/charles-dickens-bbc-howard-jacobson?INTCMP=SRCH