" . . . such are the terms of life to be lived one day at a time."
- Scott Turow; Reversible Errors
 


Picture : Leon and I on his first flight.

"Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once"
- Unknown




Picture : Belsize Park, Camden.

"He felt so at home . . . he had what he needed and no more. There was a sense of tranquility in that.
- Asa Laarson, The Black Path.


Picture : A corner in our home.

"I knew for a fact that Doreen Slater hated trees. She used to say, 'Look at them, they just stand there'."
- Adrian Mole : The Prostrate Years; Sue Townsend


Picture : At Templer Park.

"The ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive."
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X


Picture : A neighbourhood bookshop in Belsize Park.

"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
- George Bernard Shaw

"However when you get to 33, everything changes. Time straps a jet pack to it's back, lights the afterburners and sets off at Mach 3. The sun moves across the sky as though God's got his finger on the fast forward button. Blink and you can miss a whole month."
- Jeremy Clarkson; The World According to Clarkson, Volume 1


Picture : My little Portmeirion Clock.

"If you postulate there is no God, and you are wrong, there is no recourse."
- Ravi Zachariahs



Picture : The Psalms.

"Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a moron."
- George Carlin.


Picture : Mean machine.

"But he'd always agreed with how one British observer described Westminster. A great French thought expressed in excellent English."
- Steve Berry; The Paris Vendetta

Picture : Westminster Abbey which sits next to The Palace of Westminster.

"And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats, and stuff. She's good; I like her."
- Bryan Ferry



Picture : A children's book.

Blessed are those who listen to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway.
- Proverbs 8:34

Picture : A set of doors in St. Mary's Anglican Cathedral, Kuala Lumpur. This was taken on Christmas Day 2012.

"Put a premium on peace. Crave it. Pursue it."
- Joyce Meyer



Picture : Taken off the Royal Mile, Edinburgh.

"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round."
- Ben Hogan


Picture : Dorene, Toni and Zoe, out for the day.

" It's part of the fabric of British life. Of course it is. Anything becomes the fabric of your life if it hangs around long enough."
- Jeremy Clarkson; How Hard Can It Be


Picture : I took this from one of the Red Top buses. 

"They crossed the ridge. In its lee, hidden from the deer, they worked their was across the mountainside."
- Ken Follett; A Place Called Freedom.

 Picture : The craggy and rocky country of the Scottish Highlands.
 

"Under Capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism, it's just the opposite."
- John Kenneth Galbraith


Picture : From the gallery of the Nobel Laureates, National Science Centre, Kuala Lumpur

" . . . a window really is a remarkable thing."
- Thomas Kincaid & Kathrine Spense; Cape Light.
 


Picture : Looking out a train window, North Wales.

"I'm getting nowhere fast."
- Asa Larsson; The Black Path




- Picture : A Thomas The Tank Engine type steam train; Haverthwaite Train Station, Cumbria.

"Flowers bore me. They do nothing for fifty weeks of the year and then on the other two they continue to do nothing because you planted them somewhere that was too hot, too shady, too high up or too near sea level. And the soil is wrong too."
-Jeremy Clarkson; The World According to Clarkson Volume 1
Picture : A shot from our garden. 

" . . . the city seemed busy with itself."
- Steve Berry; The Romanov Prophecy




Picture : France from a cover of one of my notebooks. 

"Love - the only legally acceptable form of psychosis."
- Scott Turrow in Innocent.



Picture : April 2012; The wall of a lovely bakery in Belsize Park, London.

"Then she finished her coffee and went back to her important work protecting herself and her country. And strictly in that order."
- David Baldacci; The Sixth Man

Picture : The cafe at Salisbury Cathedral where one of the four remaining original copies of the Magna Carta is kept. 

"So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall."
- Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.



Picture : My to-read list.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
- Elucid



Picture : April 2012; In the grounds of Blair Castle, Scotland. 

"She took a small house with a garden, which she loved, and regarded it as a working garden, cultivating the plants and then using the flowers in the house."
- Enchantment : The life of Audrey Hepburn. By Donald Spoto

Picture : April 2013; Our console table.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
- James Russell Lewell


Picture : April 2012; The silent and enchanting ruins of Tintern Abbey on the Welsh bank of the River Wye. These ruins inspired William Wordsworth's poem "Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey"

" . . . . the heady rush of spending a fortune on a ring that could be used as a spotlight from a space station was starting to fade, leaving me a little jittery."
- Sundays At Tiffany's by James Patterson

Picture : March 2013; Not a ring but another piece of costume jewellery.

"The sea was just lying there doing nothing much."
- Adrian Mole : The Prostrate Years. By Susan Townsend


 Picture : Dec 2011; Hard Rock Hotel, Penang.
 

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill


Picture : April 2012. Northeast England. Pointing the direction to some of the remnants of Emperor Hadrian's Wall.

Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass, finely shorn.
- Francis Bacon



Picture : Taken in April 2012. The Garden's of Blair Castle, Scotland, the ancient seat of the Dukes and Earls of Atholl. The Duke of Atholl commands the only legal private army in Europe.