popped up to parliament square for a few minutes after work

commemorating the abolition of slavery here in 1834

a lot of crack and rumble above putney heath this afternoon ... puts you in mind of william shakespeare

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!

You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout

Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!

You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,

Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,

Singe my white head!

And thou, all-shaking thunder,

Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world!

Crack nature's moulds, an germens spill at once,

That make ingrateful man!
























I conjure you, by that which you profess,—

Howe’er you come to know it,—answer me:

Though you untie the winds and let them fight

Against the churches; though the yesty waves

Confound and swallow navigation up;

Though bladed corn be lodg’d and trees blown down;

Though castles topple on their warders’ heads;

Though palaces and pyramids do slope

Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure

Of Nature’s germens tumble all together,

Even till destruction sicken; answer me

To what I ask you.
























If by your art, my dearest father, you have

Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.

The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,

But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek,

Dashes the fire out.

O, I have suffered

With those that I saw suffer: a brave vessel,

Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her,

Dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock

Against my very heart.

Poor souls, they perish'd.

Had I been any god of power, I would

Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere

It should the good ship so have swallow'd and

The fraughting souls within her.

sunshine

breakfast is served

a little bit of hampton court palace

today's colour was pink

"real" tennis at hampton court

church of saint mary the virgin at up waltham between chichester and petworth

inside upwaltham church

said to be twelfth century ... tiny romanesque piscina by window next to altar

billionaires please note ... tithe barn at upwaltham ... for sale

a perfect setting for a soccer field

stopham bridge

re-built in 1423, one arch raised ( for navigation ? ) 1822

we had thunder & half an inch of hail earlier ... good job i haven't taken down the christmas decorations yet

a bit of symmetry at the bus stop

the best toy i ever had ... they are back on the shelves in woolworths

so grab your piggy bank and run all the way

john piper ... with thanx to bhikku

i never took a lot of notice of john piper

when i was younger i wanted my art to be clear and well-defined, nubile possibly

bhikku published this golden image last week and i'm grateful to him

http://www.bhikku.net/

flagrant pargetry in bank street, maidstone

those flagrant railings on worships hill at riverhead in kent, again

looking south from ide hill on thursday morning

some gave them gingerbread and drummed them out of town

thinning out the forest near kent college

new ivy engulfing tonbridge school

from the towers of arundel to the towers of nine elms

"it is thinking about raining"

vera the traction engine, asleep in ashdown forest

vera is pulling a residential trailer AND an old land rover which seems to be used as a shed on wheels for tools, firewood, coal, etc ... and why not ?

outside the british library

turning the pages at the british library web site

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html

the "sacred" exhibition at the british library has some of the most marvellous books in the world for you to get up close to, but don't despair if you can't get there, just click on to their link and soon you'll be turning the pages yourself