the shadows of medieval paintings, once obliterated with whitewash

... and if you've never wondered whatever happened to harry hotspur's widow ...

in war, truth is the first casualty ... today's guardian ran some extracts from the war diary of david cotterrell

Bloody reality ... last year, the artist David Cotterrell went to Afghanistan to observe the work of military medical staff at the main field hospital at Camp Bastion. His diary and photographs, now on show at the Wellcome Institute in London, are a harrowing reminder of the cost of war

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/nov/25/war-afghanistan-health

... well worth reading, if only for the last paragraph

two important exhibitions ... at the wellcome institute ... and the british library

why war is bad ... amongst other reasons

http://www.wellcomecollection.org/exhibitionsandevents/exhibitions/war-and-medicine/index.htm

and how precious our "freedoms" are ...

http://www.bl.uk/takingliberties

a couple of absurdities in the euston road

christmas ? did someone mention christmas ?

the gatwick express heading for victoria through clapham junction

bloody isolationists

i'm saving up for some clean socks in case we go visiting

lettering at sheffield park

stepney at sheffield park

53809 at sheffield park

no tripods allowed in the courtyard of somerset house ... i was politely chivvyed by one of their security staff and departed in deepest despondency

bush house

a theatre reflected in black marble

a rainy night in putney

minor distractions during a diverted journey to work

after the remembrance service at upwaltham

a "saving grace" on a damp dark day in lee-on-solent

lovely video of cartoonist iconoclast/iconophile steve bell hard at it

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2008/nov/13/prince-charles-royal