Wednesday, November 30, 2005

a last glimpse as the ferry from newhaven to dieppe exits stage left beyond cuckmere haven

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ponies at frog firle near alfriston

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saint andrews church at bishopstone near seaford, almost too tidily restored ...

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... with twelfth century corbels ...

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... and bishopstone bird life, jackdaws and weather cock

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you couldn't make it up ...

i drove past a bus queue on this freezing morning

six of the seven looked rigid and miserable

the seventh was a stout party, about eighteen stone, with a wide and guileless face, dressed in the kind of charity shop clothes from long passed decades that a caring institution might provide

he stood with feet wide apart and bounced up and down, his head thrown back, his right hand using a half-eaten apple as a plectrum for his air guitar