anna karenina searching for a gingerbread cottage

she's off to the sales ...

dawn ... still waiting for that trail of stardust across the sky and a merry ho-ho-ho echoing around the tenements

by rights ... a man's porridge should come in a golden bowl ...

... how else is he to find the energy to get the baubles up on time ?

decorating is done to strict regime in upper putney

you drink palacio de bornos verdejo 2005 from valladolid

you listen to la mystere des voix bulgares

you can't go wrong !

we pause near punnets town whilst the farmer does his work at biblical speed

john's fresh fish supply

as i was driving from ashdown park to cuckfield, i spotted john's stall in the car park of the danehill social club ... the fish really is good, and the clients really are sociable ... i'll be looking out for him in future

the eight bells in bolney high street, sussex

these steps opposite the eight bells in bolney lead up to a splendid lychgate

bolney lychgate ... i wonder why they thought latin was preferable to english ?

et in caram parentum suorum memoriam tam desideratorum

henrici huth et augustae ludovicae sophiae huth

hanc porticum amoris et pietatis causa st(r?)uxit filius

anno salutis mcmv

bolney church

coat of arms photographed in near darkness in bolney church

you often find an old coat of arms in a church, usually in some dark recess

i'm not really sure what their purpose was but sometimes the painting is rarther well done

i wonder if someone somewhere is an expert on their history ?

bolney churchyard has some unique gravestones, long and thin with a ball or disc at each end, no one knows why

more mossy graves at bolney

another 4am visit to the nymph in sloane square

the parish church at old heathfield in sussex

in memory of robert hunt

window in memory of robert hunt at the church in old heathfield, sussex

he sailed to america with captain john smith

he celebrated the first anglican communion in the new world at jamestown

he perished there not long afterwards

lanterns on the south bank

part of the view from the south bank

a curious incident

an usher came out of the queen elizabeth hall to insist that "tripods are not allowed !"

yet there is no sign forbidding them

he threatened to call security because i was unwilling to comply

can anyone explain ?

portsmouth skyline from porchester