gratuitous chocolate pudding imagery ... with kitchen genius sheila evans searching the ceiling for a lost word

built to last ... with identical twin lady doctors ?

in case of emergency: when emotional blackmail fails ...

Chapter Ninety Nine: In which our hero discovers the limitations of pathos ...

There is a full moon and the bright air is filled with frost.

In the nearby wood, owls cry and foxes yelp.

Imagine a darkened bedroom in which an exhausted trucker lays down in the hope that sleep will come quickly, but there is a chill in the air and he reluctantly shifts himself in search of some socks because his feet won’t warm up.

The loved one brings in her own little heart-shaped hot-water bottle and she settles down for the night in comfort, on her side of the bed, whereupon, if you had been listening, you might have heard him telling her that,

“In an ideal world, you would curl yourself around my feet !”

And after her contemptuous snort, you might just have caught her monosyllabic rejection, projected as if towards a badly behaved dog.

i've fixed us a noticeboard, six feet high by two feet six ... in the loo ... how many postcards will it take ?

what's the welsh for "gone coracle-ing" ?

and you can always use microsoft word spell checker to find out if your style is fashionably opaque

must i run barefoot all the way down to the king's road to get some new trainers right now ?

superheroes go bonkers in lone pine

we went to lone pine in california once and i often check it out on the internet webby thing to see what might be happening because i'd love to go back

the sierra nevada is big but these undaunted hyperactive nutters from san diego ( Scott Nelson, Nathan Ricklin and Charles Ince ) made me laugh and gasp with envy and admiration when they conquered it with self-imposed handicaps

you can click on to their short film and read all about it via this link

http://pullharder.org/2009/02/20/winter-ascent-of-the-complete-north-ridge-of-lone-pine-peak/

uk government health warning ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zolpidem

i am too weak-willed to resist sharing with you this gratuitous juxtaposition ( i )

real grass at liberty in sloane street

cleaning the hob ... any excuse to delay the hoovering !

we flew south ...

... to indulge in a growing affection for roman marble

lintels !

beards

and when i rule the universe, this is where you'll find us on bath nights

the god of the nile

it is a well-known fact that truckers make ideal artist's models

i once knew a farmer who'd ( allegedly ) been weaned on scrumpy