ah ! that must be their tea-bucket

antique lettering revealed during a refit at 91 lavender hill, apparently carved

a very special exhibition

an art exhibition at croydon clocktower with a specific historical text featuring some wonderful paintings by former patients of psychiatric hospitals in the area, notably richard dadd and louis wain, but with many other works that engage, delight, perplex, and even move one to tears

i include a link to bethlem hospital's short page on william kuralek and the leicester gallery's and the wikipedia article on the same

http://www.bethlemheritage.org.uk/gallery/pages/LDBTH149.asp

http://www.leicestergalleries.com/art-and-antiques/detail/10306

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

http://www.croydonclocktower.org.uk/tempbeta.aspx?ID=360

first to arrive at the nft for time and the city

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2008/nov/10/terence-davies-of-time-and-the-city

a beer and a millenium wheel

singing or whistling ?

as a child in north wiltshire, i would stand beneath the telegraph posts besides a quiet country road and listen to the soft whistling of the wind in the wires, believing it to be the composite sound of many voices whizzing back and forth between malmesbury and tetbury, faster than the invisible jet fighters ( hawker hunters from kemble ? ) that sometimes used to break the sound barrier far above us on sunny days

domestic frivolity, clapham common north side

insomniac photography, chapter 24, volume 7, page 365

arding and hobbs reflected in the window of the falcon by clapham junction

itchingfield church in sussex

the old yew tree and the old oak steeple at itchingfield

the priests' house in itchingfield churchyard

itchingfield remembers

a couple of old signs in itchingfield church

http://www.achurchnearyou.com/itchingfield-st-nicolas/

just one of a million lovely election stories, i guess ...

http://www.mardecortesbaja.com/blog/_archives/2008/11/5/3962597.html

why am i always the last to see these things ?

Ans. Because I don't watch TV

Click & Watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq8Uc5BFogE

during an unexpected wait in brighton ... ( 1 )

during an unexpected wait in brighton ... ( 2 )

during an unexpected wait in brighton ... ( 3 )

oh happy day !

a cheeky monkey recently offered me a groschen for my thoughts ... inexcusable extravagance !

reflections and projections outside putney mall

newdigate church

the design and quality of the lettering on this little brass memorial are exemplary and i am delighted and puzzled by the contradiction in the last sentence

it says "she died" ... "& expecteth a blessed resurection", implying perhaps, that she is only sleeping patiently in her grave

i wish it had told us more about the person

if she still loiters here then i doubt that she will be feeling patient ... the victorians restored the church in 1877 and any graves and memorials that might be her contemporaries have been tidied away for ever

looking west from ashdown forest

reigate tunnel and vaults

cap'n scott

a sunny afternoon in trafalgar square

rosy apples

the cats seem curiously unaffected by the prospect of my forthcoming journey to spain ...

unwashed etymological coinage

the goddess of small things has adopted an interloper

do you ever get that feeling that someone is watching you ?

it wasn't just the angel who made me shudder, it was the two green eyes in the shadow beneath the A40 fly-over on Edgware Road

after the visitors have gone