Today It's Tomorrow

"Come on, Val, don't make me beg."


"OK, then, PLEASE can I have sex with you?"


"That feels better."


"I can't stop thinking about it."


"The most fun you can have without laughing? And then you feel so relaxed you can laugh and smile anyway."


"Let me feed you, Val. It's very erotic."


"I bought you these rare yellow pearls, but I got so excited the string broke."


"Do you like my cute smile, muscular neck and big barrel chest?"


"What do you mean, I have that 'Just Fucked' look?"


"You can't watch, Captain, my technique's not for sharing."


"Do my shoulders look big in this?"


"Even the SHADOW of my eyelashes is sexy."


"I'm usually facing a woman when she's yelling in ecstacy,"

Another Tip Top Favourite

So much to love in this episode. Was he ever more perfect?

"OK, my shirt's off. I choose YOU for a wrestling match."


"And one of you can suck my fingers."


Police line-up - I'll take the big one, please.


"This pipe may be even bigger than mine."


Bobby, you light my fire.


"Who'd like to kiss my neck - just here?"


"If I smile nicely, will someone share their cake with me?"


I don't know which is loveliest, his sympathetic look or his little curl.


His hair was so badly behaved in this episode.


"This is my best cynical look."


A subtle blend of sympathy and disgust. What an actor.


Bobby, your curl has escaped again. Can I catch it for you?


"I'm gonna getcha. You can see it in my face."

Fair (or Fayre) Does

The local park had a "country fayre" today. In the middle of a London borough! I did get some bottles of Kent apple juice made from named varieties.

I also went to the Art Deco Fair at Eltham Palace. I've written about this glorious building before, with its art deco mansion built on to a medieval great hall. There are Tudor ruins in the grounds. Henry VIII and Elizabeth both stayed here.

These walls in the garden are Tudor brick on medieval stone.


This 14th century stone bridge is topped by Tudor brick parapets.


The arches are also lined with Tudor brick.


The Great Hall is - well - er - great!


There are three Tudor houses outside the gate, in the street known as the Tilt Yard, where jousting would have taken place. When one came up for sale some years ago I was gutted that I couldn't afford to buy it.


Today was a gloriously sunny, warm day, and people turned out in force. Not only was the car park full, so were the overflow, 2 x overflow and 3 x overflow car parks. There were also cars on the verges and in the wider parts of the drive. I was in the 3 x overflow car park, and in the field next door there were four ponies - probably two mothers and two foals. These two came over to me hoping for a treat.

One of the Greats

I absolutely adore Chinoiserie. I'm so glad Bobby got that smug, selfish old woman. I wanted to smack her really hard in the mush. (Slang for face.)

"If I stand with my lips apart like this, do you think Val will kiss me?"


"If you want a good English accent, listen to Val."


Groan!


Perfect. (Have I ever said that before?)


Bobby gets his leg over. Need extra rehearsal, Bobby? I'm willing and able.


Bobby's gonna getcha.


Moan!


He's gotcha!

In my defence

I finally capped Best Defence, but thanks to P-Bucket, I can only load pictures from the computer. Not that they have a vendetta against me over there or anything.

It's not one of my favourite episodes, but my goodness, there are a lot of great hand shots in it.

Does he look perfect in this picture or what?Have I ever said that before?


Do you think your manicurist could fit me in?My nails suck compared to yours.


Ah, the towelette thing.


The gizmo.


I'll have double-delicious with lashings of lashes, please.

A Little Tour

I thought that after seeing the seamier side of my local area, you might like to see some of the pleasanter surroundings that are within a few miles of my home.

I'm sure Lewisham grew up where it did because it was at the confluence of two rivers - the Ravensbourne and the Quaggy (which only surfaces briefly near the town centre, otherwise it's culverted). Here's the Ravensbourne

and here's the Quaggy.

Believe it or not, they both used to look much worse than this!

OK, apparently I loaded these wrong. Photobucket won't let me into my album, so I had to do this straight from the computer.

This path is between two beautiful streets where the richer members of Lewisham society reside. It's actually in Blackheath, parts of which are in the borough of Lewisham. As Ientered the path, two mounted police officers came out.

The second picture is from an almost derelict staircase leading from an observation platform preserved for its wonderful views over London. As you can see, it's a good hunting spot for cats!

Then there are two pictures of the views from this vantage point. I was desperate for a pee at this point, and the area was so deserted, I just squatted and watered the plants.

At the bottom of this section is one of the old houses on the old Earl of Dartmouth's estate.

Above is another of the very old houses on the same street.

Below is a pair of houses which are some of the oldest semi-detached houses in Britain.

Another 200-year-old house on the Dartmouth land.

This is a close-up of the blue plaque on the wall.

Now you know who to blame!

The Ranger's House was built to house the Ranger of Greenwich Park.

It now houses the Werner Collection, and amazing collection of jewellery and other fine pieces of gold and other precious stones and metals. Greenwich Park was close to the road the Romans built to the Kent coast. It's the same road that Chaucer's pilgrims used to go to Canterbury in the Canterbury Tales.

This was the hunting park for Greenwich Palace, where Henry VIII was born.

From this hill, beside the Royal Observatory, you can see the National Maritime Museum, with the Queen's House in the centre. I've made posts about these before. Beyond is the Royal Naval College, which is now part of the University of Greenwich. Then there is the Thames, and on the other side, the Isle of Dogs, with the tower blocks of the new business district at Canary Wharf.

To the left you can just make out the new big wheel, the Greenwich Eye.

This view shows the Millennium Dome, or the O2 as it's now known.

Ahm the 24-hour clock on the Prime Meridian at Greenwich,

the place where the day begins and ends.

It shows Greenwich Mean Time, which is an hour behind the current British Summer Time.

There are some incredibly old trees in the park.

This sign tells the story of the Elizabeth Oak, which managed to stand for centuries till modern technology failed to save it (they put a metal stanchion inside to support it, but failed to attach it to the ground, so its weight pulled the tree over some time after a heavy storm).

This is the view back up to the Observatory. This is probably no more than a tenth of the park, maybe a lot less than that. You can just see a statue in the middle, which is of General Wolfe, the man who subdued Quebec. Apparently, today was his 239th birthday.