creatures of habit ...

long before sunrise, there is a minute's disorientation and delay whilst i am preparing Her-indoors' first cup of earl grey ... her old porcelain mug with the chintzy roses has been given the elbow and i have a sleep-walker's blind spot for the new one with lickle birds ... and i, being born a creature of hard-to-break-habit, will never ever ever be able to throw out my old tea-stained velasquez ... eventually the tea gets made and the new cup stands cooling in the near darkness besides her sleeping shadow

stuff on the south bank

stuff ... nearer to bearhurst than battenhurst

wannabe philosophers seem to believe that if you look at life hard enough then some kind of theme will emerge ...

irresistible ... should we take our own picnic ?

http://www.londonopenhouse.org/public/london/find/detail.asp?loh_id=19027

http://www.waterprojectsonline.com/case_studies/2012/Thames_Beckton_Odour_2012.pdf

i am inordinately proud of this facebook greeting from richard nye ...

3BT ... no ! 4 !!!

Four swallows shoulder to shoulder on a wire

A blackbird feeding her enormous squeaking fledgling

In the back of the bus, but not together, four smart young wimmin with freckles and ginger hair

Lastly, lots of cards and texts and e-mails for my birthday ... thanxxx you'all

like waving a rag rug at a bull ... some landscapes inspire surprising art works ...

... its the white horse at cherhill. silly ! fresh from the magic fingers of sheila evans, duchess of bancffosfelen

strongly drawn pub sign in edenbridge

The question of ... what was the question ?

Yesterday afternoon, at the end of quite a long and unnecessarily physical shift, I parked the truck and took the day’s paperwork up to the office.  Then I hung the keys of the truck on a little hook in the keys’ cupboard.  

Finally, as if somnabulent, I neatly hung my own set of house keys on the adjacent hook, and went home without them.  Hmmm !   

Today, a customer named Paul recommended the services of an organization in Switzerland named Dignitas.  

I could see his point.

It’ll be OK, I told him, as long as they have nice curtains; you know the sort of thing …

We thought a little motto embroidered on some fancy scroll-work might look nice ...

"Diende tempore felicius"

she's just got back from belgium ...

if only putney heath were fenced-in, then we might apply to the trustees for pannage

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

THOU SHALT NOT FRACKING MESS WITH THE WATER TABLE !!!

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/11/texas-tragedy-ample-oil-no-water

i walked, no, RAN away from education three times ... but am still interested

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

i suppose that icarus fell out of a non-euclidean sky

Lower and Upper Grosvenor Gardens are two small triangular gardens laid out to complement Thomas Cundy's French Renaissance style houses. In the Lower Garden little remains of the elaborate railings of the 1864 layout and it was remodelled in 1952 as a memorial to Anglo-French understanding and a tribute to the Free French. It has an elaborate fleur-de-lys format of paths, and flowerbeds with bedding displays, the central bed in the form of a fleur-de-lys, topiary and a tiered device for the display of ivies. Two shell and pebbledash lodges studded with molluscs, with pediments on all sides, were brought over especially from France, and between them there was once a parterre. An equestrian statue of Marshall Foch of c.1930 stands at the entrance.

http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.asp?ID=WST059

barbed wire bangles ... i can't believe they're not welsh !

it's easy when you know how ... steven hough, ennit ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01cphx0

... you might lose yourself in the proms site for the rest of the summer ... and half the winter, too, if they didn't take it down eventually

many of you will be shocked to learn that the rules of cricket have not yet been published in a reliable translation for those who speak the polish language

cabmen's shelter at hungerford bridge again, with a little tv fillum from the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23591682