June 9, 2009
 Tricky manoeuvre

 Tricky manoeuvre

 The foxgloves are out in my garden and so are the bees

 The foxgloves are out in my garden and so are the bees

May 11, 2009
Biscuit the Whippet

Biscuit the Whippet

Spent ages yesterday trying to get dog, shadow and reflection together.  Not well focussed as I took the photo trotting with the whippet

Spent ages yesterday trying to get dog, shadow and reflection together.  Not well focussed as I took the photo trotting with the whippet

April 19, 2009
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country…….Society owes protection only to peaceable citizens
Maximilien Robespierre - Head of the Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution and architect of the Reign of Terror.
I rise at eleven, I dine about two,
I get drunk before seven, and the next thing I do,
I send for my whore, when for fear of a clap,
I spend in her hand, and I spew in her lap;
Then we quarrel and scold, till I fall fast asleep,
When the bitch growing bold, to my pocket does creep.
Then slyly she leaves me, and to revenge the affront,
At once she bereaves me of money and cunt.
If by chance then I wake, hot-headed and drunk,
What a coil do I make for the loss of my punk!
I storm and I roar, and I fall in a rage.
And missing my whore, I bugger my page.
Then crop-sick all morning I rail at my men,
And in bed I lie yawning till eleven again.
Regime de Vivre - John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
April 6, 2009
The hod carrier is not happy in his work (Sainte-Chapelle, Paris)

The hod carrier is not happy in his work (Sainte-Chapelle, Paris)

Happy-looking horse

Happy-looking horse

More Fireworks

More Fireworks

Fireworks, Barbican, London

Fireworks, Barbican, London