chimbleys by pugin at albury in surrey ... you wouldn't get planning permission nowadays

i can't adequately express my gratitude to andre michelle who designed this light relief for unmusical hands ... click away

http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix

me and my big mouth

on the crest of an astonishingly pompous impulse, i mistook a pub in Wandsworth Road for this one in Charlton as recently featured by Tom Sutpen in his ever-stimulating blog "if charlie parker was a gunslinger ..."

i'm still blushing

http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/2009/03/abandoned-places-12.html

up in the clouds ... tremedal

derelict railway at guadalupe ... allegedly built by prisoner slaves after the civil war

tempus fugit ... a decaying church with a fully atrophied sundial at deleitosa

threshing circle at the summit of the pass between navezuelas and canamero

the flight to madrid awaits, backsun

undeniable symptoms of incipient blue-skies thinking

blooming marvellous

a hollow tower at bruton

a three sided tower at stourton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Alfred%27s_Tower

it was six in the morning. "Are we ready to rock'n'roll ?"

... asked the efficient looking man with the clipboard at goods-in.

"Well, yes ! In a manner of speaking ...", I replied somewhat hesitantly, pointing down to my regulation industrial footwear

goin' rattin', luv ?

banish the agony of mothers' day indecision ... buy some daffodils that match her marigolds now ... while stocks last !

turned out nice again !

balcombe viaduct ... brought in by ship !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balcombe_Viaduct

on putney heath ... spring is sprung

cowdray park ... all you need now is a polo pony ... one would rather hope to see the players in shining armour

upstairs next door to the bread shop