Saturday, June 24, 2006

designed by katrina ...., there's posh !

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between waking and sleeping

the hyperactive talkaholic loved one arrives in the bed just after i've reached the point of deepest sleep

through my cerebral fog she's talking about the wedding we'll be attending in a couple of months

she says, with all the incandescent brightness of hope, "i'll need a new dress ... and a hat"

i mumble, whilst struggling back to semi-consciousness, "would you like to borrow my crash helmet?"

Monday, June 19, 2006

grinding stone

found near cirencester by sheila evans in 1983

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cherhill in wiltshire

greening up after a rainy night

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sheila evans of bancffosfelen

attending to details of her lilac travel ensemble

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mavis ferguson-butler of pontllanfraith

92 years old, stepping out at cefn onnau above crickhowell & leading this blogger a merry dance

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Saturday, June 17, 2006

here's one i forgot to post earlier ... lancing college chapel in sussex

whoa there ! isn't that another of plutarch's ponies ?

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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

driver's boots take a quick lunch-break

the driver himself is away to the left, swimming in his underwear ...

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Monday, June 12, 2006

we've been off the air whilst moving ....




... and whilst we were packing, i found the prototype model of my sister V's medal ... she'd first moulded it with chocolate instead of bronze, to see if the cast worked

... and then she'd given me the chocolate, wrapped in gold paper

... it suddenly seemed like a good time to "invoke the spirits" of the ancestors, not that they have ever seemed far away, and so after having owned it for fifteen months, i unwrapped it

... my mother had once told me how, when i was born in August 1949, my father had arrived at the hospital with a box of chocolates, a rarity for most people in the years of post-war rationing

... it was only a few days later, when she brought me home, that he confessed to having used up her own entire chocolate ration for the coming year



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Monday, May 29, 2006

my accomplished & distinguished sister v in a poor light at 1/20th

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open photography session at tate modern

i don't like tate modern

the lighting is drab

the stairs are tortuous

the air conditioning makes my eyes sting

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