no one is above the law in modern china

You couldn’t make it up … I just got in late from work and heard the end of the six o clock news on BBC radio 4 … their reporter said the Chinese government have angrily denounced the Dalai Lama’s proposals for finding his successor, … pointing out that “any re-incarnations without government consent were illegal” ...

do not attempt to microwave your mince pie

les demoiselles de rochefort ... full of ideas, full of jokes, full of fun

window shopping at wippells in tufton street, westminster

http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/EM/wippells.html

http://www.wippell.com/products.php?pid=15

should i wait until the january sales ? window shopping at watts in tufton street, westminster

http://www.wattsandco.com/

torch snuffers in cowley street, westminster

liberal democrat HQ in cowley street, westminster

lord north street in westminster

looking across lambeth bridge

a church at godstone

stuff

In Tenebris by Thomas Hardy

Wintertime nighs;

But my bereavement-pain

It cannot bring again:

Twice no one dies.

Flower-petals flee;

But since it once hath been,

No more that severing scene

Can harrow me.

Birds faint in dread:

I shall not lose old strength

In the lone frost's black length:

Strength long since fled!

Leaves freeze to dun;

But friends cannot turn cold

This season as of old

For him with none.

Tempests may scath;

But love cannot make smart

Again this year his heart

Who no heart hath.

Black is night's cope;

But death will not appal

One, who past doubtings all,

Waits in unhope.

an illustration from a favourite author, her birth certificate, & herself with relatives

fire station in lambeth

the magic bus

"i'm on the bus!" ... in the fulham road

in the V&A courtyard

delia derbyshire ... one of a kind

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,518008,00.html

delia appears one minute and three seconds in to this piece ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMVhNztuiEI&feature=related

blimey ! she would easily win a prize in a michelle vater look-alike competition

to the v&a ... this charming domestic vignette will almost certainly arouse empathetic emotions amongst members of the coterie

http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/40965-popup.html