"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."
- Saint Augustine



Picture : Plan B, Publika, Kuala Lumpur.

"It was one of those nights when everything feels like it's broken."
- Russell Brand; My Booky Wook

 "People take for granted what is in fact an art. To live well, to live comfortably by one's own standards takes a certain maturity of spirit, exceptional character, truly refined tastes, and . . . . . and money."
Kathleen Tessaro; The Peffume Collector

Picture : Chic in a shop window.

"As usual, when faced with mental, or even physical arithmetic, my brain has just left my body and walked out of the room."
- Sue Townsend; Adrian Mole : The Wilderness Years


Picture : At Ben's Independent Grocer.

"Here, maintaining a certain chic was apparently nothing less than a civic duty."
- Kathleen Tessaro; The Perfume Collector



Picture : I think this was on The Golden Mile in Edinburgh.

"She inhabited a universe parallel to but not quite the same as others."
- Scott Turow; Reversible Errors


Picture : Early one Sunday morning; Padang Merbuk, Kuala Lumpur.

 "I feel like a sheet of paper that someone's torn into tiny pieces and thrown to the wind. But the wind of Paris is rather nice."
- Kathleen Tessaro; The Perfume Collector

"Ooh, it's Christmas o'clock. Smile everyone!"
- Russell Brand; My Booky Wook



Picture : At Jamie's Italian, Islington, London.

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
- Douglas Adams


Picture : One of my pewter wine charms.

 "Good manners : The noise you don't make when you're eating soup."
- Bennett Cerf



Picture : I'd have thought one drinks soup, not eats it. Anyhow, picture is of this nice cafe of which I have forgotten the name of.  

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then it suddenly flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come out."
- Matt Groening

Picture : Self explanatory. 

"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."
- Winston Churchill


Picture : Typewriters of yesteryear at Plan B.

"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan



Picture : A macro shot from one of my daughter's books.

 "An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one."
- George Mikes


 

Picture : This was not taken in England, but in St. Andrews, Scotland.

"I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon."
- Ronald Reagan




Picture : Saw this sign in the Bangsar Telawi area.

 "As I left, I passed her husband, who was still drying the little blue jug twenty minutes later. A suitable case for treatment if ever I saw one."
- Sue Townsend in Adrian Mole : The Wilderness Years.


Picture : Not a jug unfortunately, but one of my wine charms.



  

"I was a tourist in that world."
- Russel Brand ; My Booky Wook



Picture : Sultan Abdul Samad Building, Kuala Lumpur. Taken on the way to dinner one evening.

"Proofread carefully to see if you any words out."
- William Safire



Picture : My stamping set. 

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
- Hector Louis Berlioz


Picture : A macro shot of a motif on my little Portmeirion clock. 

" I will try to have at last the life I want. I will, finally, be brave."
- Scott Turow; Innocent



Picture : The enchanting and soulful Loch Lomond, Scotland.

Oranges and lemons, Say the bells of St. Clement's.
You owe me five farthings, Say the bells of St. Martin's.
When will you pay me? Say the bells of Old Bailey.
When I grow rich, Say the bells of Shoreditch.
- A portion of the well known nursery rhyme.



Picture : B.I.G. Supermarket.

"There's nothing like seeing the daily results of the fickle hand of fate."
- Imogen Edwards-Jones; Hospital Babylon.



Picture : The Roman Baths in the city of Bath.

"Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent."
- William Shakespeare



Picture : The Eye . . . . . . . . . of Toni. Toni took this one herself.

 "You can always spot a well-informed man - his views are the same as yours."
- H. Jackson Brown



Picture : The roof of the British Museum.

Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.
- Steven Wright



Picture : March 2013; Taken for a photo challenge.

"What a terrifically funky and eclectic world it had been."
- James Patterson; Sunday's At Tiffany's




Picture : The Thames

"This was why it was worth getting up in the morning. Because life could still hatch surprises."
- Scott Turow; Reversible Errors


Picture : This must be a city in the USA. I took this shot of a picture they are selling in Ikea. 

The Wind is sewing with needles of rain

With shining needles of rain

It stitches into the thin

Cloth of earth. In,

In, in, in.

Oh, the wind has often sewed with me.

One, two, three.

Spring must have fine things

To wear like other springs.

Of silken green the grass must be Embroidered.

One and two and three.

Then every crocus must be made

So subtly as to seem afraid

Of lifting colour from the ground;

And after crocuses the round

Heads of tulips, and all the fair

Intricate garb that Spring will wear.

The wind must sew with needles of rain,

With shining needles of rain,

Stitching into the thin

Cloth of earth, in,

In, in, in,

For all the springs of futurity.

One, two, three. 

Poem by Hazel Hall; from Poets.Org

Picture ; March 2013; Cross stitch my Mum did. This one is a coaster with a crocheted border.

"You have Simple Simon, who was obviously a retard, Hickory Dickory Dock, which is just rubbish, and Wee Willie Winkie, who ran through the town in his nightclothes, peering through the windows of children to see if they were in bed. Clearly, the man was a pedophile, and the less two-year-olds know about such things, the better."
- Jeremy Clarkson, How Hard Can It be

Picture : A macro shot of one of the Peter Rabbit magnets we bought in Grasmere, the village where Beatrix Potter lived.

"Nearly four decades on, I still have no clear idea what it was I wanted from her so deeply, so intensely, that it bound me to her against all reason. But whatever it may be belongs to the past."
- Scott Turow; Innocent

Picture : Toiletries.