the bluebells are ...

 

... about to be overwhelmed by ferns

 

would you use thames water ...

 

... for your ...

 

... personal hygiene ?

seasonal stuff

 

has steve bell become the greatest british political cartoonist since gillray ?

this caricature of blair in a tailspin is from today's guardian

 

jill roberts

e-mailed from the wild west

the last time i saw her she was a teenager & turning cartwheels

 

but at my back i always hear times winged chariot hurrying near ...

this clock sits on top of a pub next to ... a slipway !

 

the battersea elephant is resting in his stockade

 

rastafarian exuberance in wandsworth

rasta spelling mistake ? or what ...

 

the watch cost less than the chocolates

 

orgasmic porridge

to one bowl of scorching porridge add

chopped banana

honey

half a teaspoon of powdered ginger

blowing on the porridge will cool it and the tongue

bananas by cezanne

if mrs cezanne had bought gold plates the whole history of modern art might have taken a different direction


 

clapham junction from the south-west

sharpen your pencils, boys & girls ... you are entering anorak territory

 

here's one from the spanish emotional blackmailers handbook ...

"darling ! how much do you love me ?"

"more than yesterday, but not as much as tomorrow !"

victor,

the h&b drivers' supervisor, showing us how to drive ... and what !

putney river life

i'm curious to know what the two boats are doing newly beached on the far bank

a free house in point pleasant

sometimes they are still drinking by candlelight when i'm going to work

 

battersea power station at 0445

 

st.laurance's church, hawkhurst, kent

a curiosity ... all the church windows were blown out when a german flying bomb exploded in the churchyard in 1944 ... the restoration was celebrated in 1957 & so this church has a posh set of big nearly new windows, though i didn't find them attractive as the main theme seemed to be heraldic ... oh, the agonies of empire ... and the figures, which i haven't bothered to photograph, seemed to lack animation & emotion, neither of which any religion can really do without

 

mysterious heraldry at st. laurance's church, hawkhurst

the battersea elephant, again !

he's still there, or at least he was at about a quarter to four !

 

the battersea elephant, and again

the light was just a little better & the elephant was still there so i took some more pictures this afternoon

 

?animatronic? elephant

i couldn't get close but managed to get this view from the nearby railway bridge across four lanes of traffic

 

more battersea elephant stuff ..

if you blow this one up you can see some of the hydraulics behind his trunk

 

more battersea puppetry ...

this ?animatronic? girl must be about 25 feet tall

they were just dismantling her when i arrived at the roadside opposite the power station this afternoon

sorry the picture is fuzzy, it's only a little camera & she was about three hundred yards away