the emotional blackmailers handbook

of the seven deadly sins, the eighth and worst by far is emotional blackmail ... the diligent practise of this subtle and ancient art creates a constantly evolving darwinistic moral vacuum in which the brightest new manipulative ideas and stratagems flourish ... and which only you, or i, can fill !

big sister is watching you

look on my works ye mighty, and despair !

barbaric ... on a building in grosvenor place facing the west side of buckingham palace's gardens ... seen from a moving bus

oh, f .... iddle !

i guess that moriarty would escape holmes' and watson's clutches at just such a moment

fry's five boys ... enamelled sign at sheffield park on the bluebell line

virol ... enamelled signs at sheffield park on the bluebell line

stop press: bourbonista gentrification of the ashburton estates gathering momentum ...

corner shop in saint martin's lane

saint martin in the fields ... all spivved up

colosseum in saint martin's lane

wisden ... old stuff for sporting historians

la mirada del mendigo

the illustrated autobiography: chapter one ... born under a bad sign

mar de cortes baja

we're packing up to move ... only a couple of blocks away ... i'm willing to bet that certain things will be packed last of all ...

dave and v forward ... about forty years ago

the morning after ... i knew i'd drunk too much ... whilst she just pretended she'd drunk too much water

although they aren't in the brothel, the bar, or the billiard room, there might still be grounds for divorce ...

... because they're on the bluebell line ...