... and sold them to two delightful tarot readers, cheap !

i cribbed the zodiac layout from the great clock currently under restoration in San Marco in Venice, but made some changes

Pisces became two Brighton dolphins

Virgo was the girl at the Library in Hove

Gemini were vaguely like a couple of Brighton dykes

charles williams, my mother's father, began work as an engine cleaner in a shed like this ...

... before the first world war

 

the station cat flounces off in search of true love & catsmeat

the station cat at sheffield park, pretending to be starved of affection ..

... everyone knows cats are born with a vocational qualification in emotional blackmail

 

my mum smoked hers in the outside loo ...

 

you don't see many gaslights nowadays

 

no kitty, kitty ! not that kind of litter ...

 

this lad's got a square tongue ... and a sailor suit

 

exactly where and when ...

did you first learn to pronounce these words and begin to understand their meanings ?

 

hove actually

it isn't easy to stop along the seafront in brighton and hove

i snatched this shot because i fear these lamp posts may be about to disappear

 

blatchington windmill near hove

 

to set off an agatha christie type of plot, place the martini and cyanide on the table now ...

 

80064 in the bluebell railway engine shed

 

in the crowded engine shed at the bluebell railway

 

the next best three letters to S.E.X

 

pullman carriage at bluebell railway

 

guard's van at bluebell railway

 

mirrors, indicators, double-take ...

 

moody & difficult, worm's eye-view

 

ex-workmates from avis, gaynor & steve, geezer & geezer-ess, with ...

 

... geezerette

i've been meaning to paint a sequel to this for the last twelve and a half years !

 

if all else fails, read the instructions ...

i've just learned to use the time delay function

now i'm off to the party shop for the blond curly wig

 

black narcissus

it is one of THOSE films

totally engaging

tantalisingly ambiguous