driver's boots take a quick lunch-break

the driver himself is away to the left, swimming in his underwear ...

 

we've been off the air whilst moving ....

... and whilst we were packing, i found the prototype model of my sister V's medal ... she'd first moulded it with chocolate instead of bronze, to see if the cast worked

... and then she'd given me the chocolate, wrapped in gold paper

... it suddenly seemed like a good time to "invoke the spirits" of the ancestors, not that they have ever seemed far away, and so after having owned it for fifteen months, i unwrapped it

... my mother had once told me how, when i was born in August 1949, my father had arrived at the hospital with a box of chocolates, a rarity for most people in the years of post-war rationing

... it was only a few days later, when she brought me home, that he confessed to having used up her own entire chocolate ration for the coming year

burwash: give way to oncoming juggernaut (ii)

 

burwash: give way to oncoming juggernaut (i)

 

dawn on the thames at putney

 

Anyone know a good recipe for baby llamas ?

 

my accomplished & distinguished sister v in a poor light at 1/20th

 

open photography session at tate modern

i don't like tate modern

the lighting is drab

the stairs are tortuous

the air conditioning makes my eyes sting

 

stardust ?

 

pink and pink in putney

 

edwardian putney from the water's edge

 

another of putney's battered ornaments ... er, fading glories

hartfield church, sussex

another splendid stained-glass window by the inspirational meg lawrence

see my blog for april 26th 2006 for her window in burwash church

 

close up of meg lawrence's stained glass in hartfield church, sussex

aren't they beautiful !

click on the picture to enlarge it and see the delicacy of her drawing

wait another couple of seconds, then click the enlarging icon that appears at the bottom right corner for maximum detail

detail of meg lawrence's window at hartfield church, sussex

 

hartfield church, lots of posh oak

i closed my eyes & wondered about all the ladies who must have polished this church

 

village pump at hartfield, sussex

for the first time in my life, i worked the handle of a village pump, & clear water issued forth !

 

I will paint our sky a deeper shade of lapis ...

... & your many rainbows in newly discovered colours.

 

Your laughter will be one thousand flocks ...

 

... of emerald and amethyst humming birds ...

 

Rocketing through a forest of crystal & gold

 

Your smiles will be the flash of diamonds ...

 

... on the singing stream at noon

 

... & hot amber on the sea at dawn.

 

Your sigh, a brazen Mediterranean wind ...