makeover time

if george w bush was to grow a beard ... would he look more like abe lincoln ?

gluttony, sloth, anger, greed, lust, pride & envy ... without them, i wouldn't be me !

 

a little something from the loved one ...

 

pride of putney 1887

there was nothing like these in mary poppins

 

i found this under my pillow this morning ... then i woke up

 

are the wiper motors battery operated ?

 

i suppose it was already "retro" when they built it

 

cormorants go train-spotting at chelsea

 

chelsea power station

a bit of local colour

 

biggin hill

biggin hill was one of london's main defensive airfields during the battle of britain

a lot of chaps less than half my age drew some of life's shorter straws when they flew these things

 

ashdown forest winter colours

 

looking north from ashdown forest

 

a nasty case of schoolteacher's droop ...

 

is upholsterer's syndrome a notifiable disease, part i

 

is upholsterer's syndrome a notifiable disease, part ii

 

connoisseurs of fine things feign surprise on learning this fine figurehead was salvaged from the wreck of the good ship scroobious scrivener

 

lewis and steen, h&b's action-packed midfield

they have been an invaluable source of fresh material for my magnum opus, the follow-up to burton's anatomy of melancholy, provisionally titled "fear & flatulence in nine elms"

brunswick terrace from the cheese driver's cab