tillington church tower

phenomenally posh glass in tillington church

turner's famous view of petworth park ... tillington church tower is on the horizon ... it was new then

another dash in to trotton church

wisborough green, sussex

new balls, please ? has anyone mentioned christmas yet ?

fruit fish

... like the first morning ( insomniac photography between sneezes )

christmas ! did any one mention christmas ?

this morning, i was in a well-known "pile-'em-high, sell-'em-cheap" supermarket ... inspecting the half-price christmas decorations ... a few feet from me along the aisle stood a well-spoken country-wife in a puffa jacket and elastic-sided equestrian boots ... she picked up a toy turkey, less than half life-sized, which was made of felt, and was dressed as father christmas ... and it instantly began to sing jingle bells ... quite loudly, like a rather jolly man, kevin spacey perhaps, but it gobbled just like a real turkey at the end of each line ... blushing like a whole garden of roses, the lady looked around at the smart women behind the pharmaceutical counter, and then at me, and sounded quite panic-stricken when she said, "I don't know how to stop it !" ... so i put on a sympathetic smile and sidled over, a bit like vincent price playing the surgeon in the tingler, only not so well-spoken, or nearly as nice ... and murmured ... "maybe you should wring it's neck !"

trotton church in sussex

... its pews enlivened by kneelers with nifty needlework

the shadows of medieval paintings, once obliterated with whitewash

... and if you've never wondered whatever happened to harry hotspur's widow ...

in war, truth is the first casualty ... today's guardian ran some extracts from the war diary of david cotterrell

Bloody reality ... last year, the artist David Cotterrell went to Afghanistan to observe the work of military medical staff at the main field hospital at Camp Bastion. His diary and photographs, now on show at the Wellcome Institute in London, are a harrowing reminder of the cost of war

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/nov/25/war-afghanistan-health

... well worth reading, if only for the last paragraph

two important exhibitions ... at the wellcome institute ... and the british library

why war is bad ... amongst other reasons

http://www.wellcomecollection.org/exhibitionsandevents/exhibitions/war-and-medicine/index.htm

and how precious our "freedoms" are ...

http://www.bl.uk/takingliberties

a couple of absurdities in the euston road

christmas ? did someone mention christmas ?

the gatwick express heading for victoria through clapham junction

bloody isolationists

i'm saving up for some clean socks in case we go visiting