i'm a government child-beater and i'm here to help ! said the ice-queen 

hans christian andersen

did you hear those lurid but compelling radio plays ... golly, it set my mind racing and i tried to visualize my time at school through the filter of anguished fantasy ... see above

tower bridge at five thirty in the morning with the mayors office and the gherkin 

tower bridge

i never normally get an opportunity to stop and photograph this scene when i'm on my way out to essex, so i nipped back to tower bridge after i'd dropped her at waterloo in the early quiet of saturday morning.

i haven't done the scene justice this time as it needs a bit of sun, but you have to catch these sorts of skylines before someone builds in the space in front

everything the loved one needs is here 

on her holidays ...

the loved one has gone away for a week to practise yoga for five hours a day in the south of france

she's very organized and this is ALL of her luggage

kentish tiles at lenham ... you can buy killer chocolate brownies in the local bakery 

here's a feller i often nod to as i cycle to work ... 

they've changed our livery at www hbfoodprovisions dotco dotuk this week 

does my 'ed look big in this ? 

kit's coty - arguably the oldest building on this cheese driver's rounds - and right besides the pilgrim's way 

conker tree in hyde park : count the blossoms 

hove, little boxes for bathers 

newnham in kent, looks as if it might have been plastered around 1710

polo tree 

may nettle flowers 

may in kent

i drove along a bit of the Pilgrims Way & over the North Downs on the way to Canterbury, thinking of Chaucer and of of the lovely subtle & witty Powell & Pressburger film, A CANTERBURY TALE

everything looks green & lovely but it was so cold !

found a funny tree with a hole in the trunk, more like two trunks around a hole

and some lovely old plasterwork on a timbered building in newnham

glyndebourne alpacas - the aliens have landed 

travellers tales: a walking haystack at glyndebourne 

rampant bluebells near the lazy lobster