the trick is keeping the empty glasses and the full bottles of tonic in the fridge all through the summer

but cold fusion won't be achievable unless they use the correct tonic water

eternal optimism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginkgo_biloba

an ache ...

... that cannot ...

... be soothed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_Bones_burial_ground

borough high street

cor blimey luv a duck ... an recent image borrowed from my brother dave's website

http://www.davidforward.co.uk/folly/folly01.php

home sweet home

job done !

http://emotionalblackmailers.blogspot.com/2008/07/eyesight-and-plain-text-aesthetic.html

ella fitzgerald, colette, and cyd charisse making themselves comfortable in the pantheon of fine wimmin

dear diary ...

... went shoppin'

when i rule the universe ...

my garden shed will look a bit like this ...

but with heroic carvings and scenes from the lives of ...

paul gascoine, georgie best and diego maradonna

back to saint george's in bloomsbury

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Grant_(British_East_India_Company)

http://www.stgeorgesbloomsbury.org.uk/index.html

antinous ... a bit of a lad

suds

just before supper chez micawber

i'm asking my tailor to run me up a max miller suit for my next trip to brighton

osteospermum unfolding

no title

teazle

saint peter and saint paul at nutfield in surrey

... the rolling english drunkard made the rolling english road ...

... wherefore, hitherto, and notwithstanding ... thou shalt not park !

poor eyesight and plain text ... an aesthetic approach to reading swann's way

plutarch, ( diligent scholar, lucky bleeder ! ), told me that he is reading proust from one end to the other ... YET AGAIN

then why not try it yerself, i thort !

the first volume, swann's way, is available on the internet via the marvellous gutenberg site

but their typeface is rubbish ... and my eyesight is nuffink to brag about ... so i've been using microsoft word to make it more legible on my screen ...

there are zillions of spurious carriage returns in the gutenberg version, so whilst i delete them one-at-a-time, as if mending the broken paragraphs, i get the opportunity to read each sentence as slowly as this most exquisitely thoughtful author deserves, instead of skimming it like a schoolboy who can't wait to get out and play on the street before it gets dark

of course, i'm frequently tempted to re-write whole passages in the style of enid blyton, but i'd better read all twelve volumes first ...