Endless

Michael: Have you heard of the Philosopher's Axe?
Me: Is that like Occam's Razor?

Apparently not.

Also, I have decided what would be the very thing to get T.J. for a wedding present: a Möbius Duvet! ;-)

Somebody transcending their surroundings in a zen fashion by meditating at the edge of Jesus Ditch, which is full of scum and demented ducks. 

Swan visiting Jesus Green 

Reflections in the river 

Straw-hatted punter. 

A yale 

Carved angels, light and dark 

Carved angel 

King's chapel 

Entrance to Jesus College 

Someone going through the door into Jesus 

A chestnut tree 

Trees on Jesus Green 

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Mearns classic lifts book honour

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Mearns classic lifts book honour

Sunset Song has been voted "Best Scottish Book of All Time"! It's one of my favourite books ever. It's written in a fairly unusual style, being largely in the second person (breaking one of the major rules of novel-writing according to No Plot? No Problem! ).

It also gives the impression of being in dialect, which is something I absolutely cannot stand in books, but is done in such a way (mainly by altering sentence structure and rhythms and including a few dialect words) that after a couple of chapters is seems completely natural.

Normally a couple of chapters of conventionally done dialect leads to me throwing the book across the room in a rage. Indeed the only Dorothy L. Sayers book I haven't read and thoroughly enjoyed was rejected for exactly this reason (and also the plot involves a lot of railway timetables which is never good).

A sheep from the Lake District 

Very big glass...or in fact a very small bottle of wine 

Michael's facial hair problem is clearly worsening dramatically, but he says it looks hot ;-) 

Books and shadows. 

Chimneys across the backgarden with some branches in the foreground. 

This time with the chimneys in focus 

8 legged freaks

The house is currently infested (well there were two of them) with GIGANTIC SPIDERS. I was watching the telly last night when a beast the size of a saucer ambled over the top of the radiator and sat there waving its legs at me. Managed to persuade Michael to come and remove it in a pint glass, along with another one (probably its husband) from a mug in the bathroom. They're doubtless out in the garden now, plotting their revenge...

Blue star lilies that I grew from bulbs (from Tesco) 

Big hibiscus flower. 

Pink flower 

Pic from the new fancy lens. It was a bit dark when I got it home, so I'll have another go tomorrow when it may be a bit brighter (or maybe not, with the way the weather's been here). 

Experiments in pencil photos... 

View from the train last week, just outside Edinburgh. 

Another view from the train