Thing to avoid doing, i.e. hazardous project

#notreallyinthechristmasmood butterly visitor

A happy child equipped for embarkation on the Ark

Dear PERSONS IN MY TIMELINE thank you for amusing & informing me over this past year, for sharing words & thoughts & feelings & play, for reminding me of the gifts of wit & courage, & for liking some of the'stuff' I find in my dusty ephemer-attic Merry whatnot and Happy doo-dah or vice versa

How Robert Jenryck pictures himself when being filmed being cross.

A thread of old French Interior Design pages (in no particular order) Is it for one property? Is it a gentleman farmer's house, or a modern paysan's farm, this suite of rooms and workshops and subsidiary buildings? Inquire within.

[beware of artists with magnificent beards] [beware of artists without any beard] [beware, generally, of artists] [beware the non-artist]

Two Dogs wish you joy of the coming year

Blotter advertising Red Cross Soap (cleans everything)

-well, daisy, what are we doing here? -poppet, keep still.. -what's happening? -still, i said -look, i was promised sausages! where are my sausages? -after the big click noise.. -utter waste of good sausage-noshing time -sshhh - it's a rotten swizz..

Yes, hello, I can't move my neck, d'you see? And my pelvis is stuck in a strange, stiff, tilted position. Could you possibly drag me indoors and plonk me on the sofa? Now under that cushion, you'll find my medicine bottle. The label says brandy. Thank you so much.

The Boys, outside on Boxing Day, talking about tiddlers.

[732 deleted texts about the male gaze and female beauty and the switching point when desire turns to scorn]

#RIP Brigitte Bardot..

When you long to 'get away from it all'...and stay awhile 4

When you long to 'get even further away from it all'...3

When you long to 'get away from it all'... 2

When you long to 'get away from it all'...

[beware of artists with magnificent beards] [beware of artists without any beard] [beware, generally, of artists] [beware the non-artist]

correct use of snow

From today’s walk in the woods (it was freezing cold) Graphite sketch on Moleskine, watercolour afterwards

[Nothing to see here. Just coughing. Very noisy. Side order of groans]

Welcome to the Critterdome

The Critter Royal Family's processional appearance gains in diversity what it lacks in gold-plated coaches..

A New Year cat parade

Dachshunds are attracted to military uniforms

Dachshund nursing a hangover after a wild New Year's eve

Dachshunds, early adopters of flimsy little flying machines...

🎄#GothicAdvent

A whale and three fish sitting down to a formal dinner of Russian sailors, in a propaganda cartoon created by Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915), during the Russo-Japanese war (1904-5). View more from this superb series of prints here: https://buff.ly/2w0DK1S

Does anyone have a suggestion of a graphic novel/comic that might convert a 15-year-old boy who never reads (or anything else that might be given as a Christmas present since he doesn’t seem to like anything as far as I can tell?)

Dachshunds ike playing cards

Dachshunds like sledging.

-What are you reading today, Wrath? -A la rechèrche du pain perdu, Marcel Sprout. -Mm.

Take Aspirin, leave your miserable ghost-self indoors.. (i like the ghost-self's slipper-boots)

A thread of old French Interior Design pages (in no particular order) Is it for one property? Is it a gentleman farmer's house, or a modern paysan's farm, this suite of rooms and workshops and subsidiary buildings? Inquire within.

Beeple

‘Urbex is an ever-changing game, one that looks different for every new generation coming into it. … the … community isn’t only reacting to a changing digital landscape, but a fast-changing physical world, where the number of buildings that are left abandoned in the first place, is rising steeply.’

[ it's probably not abnormal to feel a bit flat & dull & lost, in the short hours of boxing day, unable to set yourself to any task, even the ones you know would improve your outlook..]

Kathy Klien, US artist known for her intricate flower mandalas created with petals #womensart

[the business of romancing your own stones, still a rite of passage]

-What are you reading today, Wrath? -A la rechèrche du pain perdu, Marcel Sprout. -Mm.

Nöel Coward called his style of work ‘touch and Gauguin,’ and although this sounds pretentious, it was his way of describing the colours he used. The majority of his paintings are of Jamaica; he first visited the island with Ian Fleming, in 1948.

This is one of the best photos of them I've ever seen, and I'm not just saying that because of the piano!

Santa's Space Sleigh #Christmas

Myknee-mail is on it's knees. What ho, what ho. Etc. It's practically traditional, init? Happy kneemailing. Tra la la.

How Robert Jenryck pictures himself when being filmed being cross.

the fox and the crow

-Jolyon, you foolish boy, why are you wearing the bearskin rug? -Well, it's a little bit cold, Auntie