Moving house...

Licenced today: removal vans in the village of Askham Richard, near York...

Isle of Mull...

To judge from the photographs printed in the papers this week, the only students to get good GCSE results have been young, attractive, photogenic females… who particularly enjoy leaping into the air.

Licenced today: the Romahome parked up overlooking Glen More on the Isle of Mull...

Subway...

I’m busy working on my book, for at least three hours each day… starting as soon as I have a mug of tea to hand. Mornings are the time of day when editing is easiest… when the words, sentences and paragraphs seem to re-arrange themselves into a more lucid configuration. The word count stays constant (about 130,000), and the text I’ve cut - and pasted into another document - is approaching this number. Essentially, I’ve written the book twice!

Licenced today... for about the price of a foot-long sandwich...

Howden homes...

Licenced today: a new housing estate in Howden from Bellway builders...

Quiet, please...

A quote from Krishnamurti, which arrived in my email in-box this morning... "When the mind is utterly silent, what is the immeasurable, the everlasting, the eternal? Not in terms of God and all the things man has invented but actually to be that. Silence, in the deep sense of that word, opens the door because there you have got all your energy; not a thing is wasted. There is no dissipation of energy at all, and therefore in that silence, there is the summation of energy. It is not stimulated energy, not self-projected energy, and so on, which is too childish. There is no conflict, no control, no reaching out, searching, asking, questioning, demanding, waiting, praying – none of that. Therefore all the energy that had been wasted is now gathered in that silence. That silence has become sacred".

Coincidentally, this plea for silence was licenced today...

Fletching...

Licenced today: the church of St Andrew and St Mary the Virgin, Fletching, East Sussex...

Dedham Vale...

A rare Sunday sale: a pollarded willow tree on the banks of the River Stour in Dedham Vale, Suffolk...