the emotional blackmailers handbook

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Monday, June 09, 2008

Sunday, June 08, 2008

when an irresistable force such as me ... meets an im-movable object like you ... why didn't it break ?

1 Corinthians 13:11 ... but not yet

noisy neighbours breakfasting on the green berries of the holly tree

Saturday, June 07, 2008

i went back to grosvenor place this morning to satisfy my curiosity about number 33

... a curious building in that it bears no exterior signage that would give the passer-by any clue about its original purpose, or the origin of these masterly but quite obscene carvings

... maybe the rooftop pinnacles at either end of the building might jog someone's memory

... but not mine

nb ( 18th july 2008 ) just found from pevsner that the carvings are by maurice lambert, a rich if limited subject, so more about him in a new blog as soon as i've done some research

Pevsner describes the subject matter as angels "trampling down" devils ... mmm ! sort of ...

pevsner doesn't attribute the gigantic pinnacles/finials

our new neighbour has welcomed us with a pot of freshly home-made strawberry jam

Friday, June 06, 2008

love and marriage went together like a horse and carriage in cedars road, clapham

clapham baptists' bus-stop mural

Thursday, June 05, 2008

big sister is watching you

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

look on my works ye mighty, and despair !

barbaric ... on a building in grosvenor place facing the west side of buckingham palace's gardens ... seen from a moving bus

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