exit 2012

{this photo was taken on a commuter into london bridge railway station. as the train neared the platform it got held up by traffic and as i gazed outside at that monster of a building called the shard, i noticed graffiti on a steel girder outside my window. so! my family was here. ☻}

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here's looking at 2012, waving it bye-bye, not to ever return again. 2013 will hold new adventures and a life closer to our goal: getting this house fully functional. by which i also mean: get my studio back on the road. or rather: front room, first floor. 
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last update to london, 2012 here. 

a jingle

last year's christmas window stickers left a pleasing negative mark on the glass, before i washed it away in new year's enthusiasm. luckily i had my camera at hand to mark the occasion. this year we are flattered with rain. nonetheless i shall put on my boots today, and i'm only too sorry i can't take cat with me, at heel. a christmas day walk is imminent, followed by afternoon reading. gimme christmas any day of the year!

and a merry one to you all.

♥

reorganize and collect {renov #30}

{previously}

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what i've done in real time is i've painted the downstairs window so i could empty out the space, so i would have room for the x-mas tree that has been patiently awaiting dressing up for nigh on two weeks now. 
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then i rearranged a few bits in the kitchen. having shoved plenty of cumbrous things in the corridor for son to take upstairs (nope, he's nowhere near), i started hitting the cardboard filth underneath the studio windows. oi. 
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the more i hit, the more beige plaster & horse hair & dust from goneby decades & newspaper from the fifties fell into my lap. i'm telling you. 
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but it needed doing, i'd only been postponing the job for six months. well. i'm glad to say it 's done. 
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nope. son nowhere near in sight. 
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in fantasy time, as i hacked away at the wall... i was dreaming up words. 
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these very words you find scattered through this saturday post. before i take a loooooooooooooong bath. 
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see you again soon, loveys. this light's gone out for the day... do hover over images, for you'll find out where the lovely words come from... ♥
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favourably impressed

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little britain at its best in this curious museum of small wonders. 
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though the characters are real life people, and not some lanky men in drag, walking these few rooms ...
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... and enjoying afternoon tea served in the orangery, make for an unexpected if traditional venture. 
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the lady at the till enlightening me on the pleasures of a fan, ...
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... blinking eyes like only are you being served mister humphries ever could, starting up her story again as she concludes it. 
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do you follow? 
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her very eyes reminding me of the peacock pride.
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the man at reception playing double act as a terribly jolly and queer tea tender. 
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baritone voice raw from nicotine smoke. 
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as the orangery is frugally chilly, despairingly and insufficiently hotted up by a heat fan, {fan!}, the inside tenor is enhanced by a gardener's struggle with an electric leaf blower.
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a thought befalls me, as i munch away. 
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how small venues such as the greenwich fan museum can hold up to the national maritime museum just round the corner, is beyond me. 
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perhaps english eccentricity is key here? ☻
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corner view ≈ lights

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lights were what i went in search for on tuesday night, and i knew exactly where i was going to find them. 

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that i waited a while to go and get the lights has everything to do with corner view.

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sometimes, that's the way the cookie crumbles... ☻

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it doesn't half look like it is going to topple over, does it? 

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{which works like a give away on how images can delude without too much effort, really. 
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more on photographic manipulation after experiencing ansel adams in a maritime museum exhibition, later.} 

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while the full spectrum of the eye at night looks something like this... 

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jane's corner view, 
francesca's hosting
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fyi, there's more of london from last week, here, here and here. and of course, in my album. 
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cheerio!
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♥