oh, f .... iddle !

i was tinkering with the blogger layout ... ineptly, of course, and



now i've gone and deleted all my my links to other blogs ...



they'll be back, with additions ... once i've been re-educated

i guess that moriarty would escape holmes' and watson's clutches at just such a moment

fry's five boys ... enamelled sign at sheffield park on the bluebell line

virol ... enamelled signs at sheffield park on the bluebell line

stop press: bourbonista gentrification of the ashburton estates gathering momentum ...

... in other words, we have moved to the new place

corner shop in saint martin's lane

saint martin in the fields ... all spivved up

colosseum in saint martin's lane

wisden ... old stuff for sporting historians

la mirada del mendigo

two hours gone up in smoke !

i've just found this spanish ( ?asturian? ) blogger who takes lovely pictures and is also deeply and informatively engaged with spanish politics

http://lamiradadelmendigo.blogspot.com/

the illustrated autobiography: chapter one ... born under a bad sign

mar de cortes baja

if you ever felt the need for a blog that provided great images from film noir ... great images from victorian painting, occasional travelogues, discussions of the deeper meanings of the works of hitchcock, welles, john ford, etc, etc ... you could do worse than delve in to mar de cortes baja ... i was transfixed for hours ... although occasionally there were uncomfortable little reminders of domestic frailties

we're packing up to move ... only a couple of blocks away ... i'm willing to bet that certain things will be packed last of all ...

dave and v forward ... about forty years ago

the morning after ... i knew i'd drunk too much ... whilst she just pretended she'd drunk too much water

although they aren't in the brothel, the bar, or the billiard room, there might still be grounds for divorce ...

... because they're on the bluebell line ...

... and they're pampering "stephanie"

shoreham lighthouse

the restoration of the old shoreham toll bridge, across the river from lancing college and shoreham airport