Shades of Blue and Green

The title to this post is taken from the title track of a wonderful album recorded by Lorraine Craig with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO).

This song, with it's hot-chocolate smooth sweet vocal, is a regular contributor to the continuous-play soundtrack in my head. My little internal DJ, my psychic iPod, always set to shuffle.

It has a sense of humour. It likes to surprise me, and occasionally it tries to force its way forward into my speech - dares me to respond to a question, or complete a sentence, with one of my favourite lyrics.

I am still in awe of my Dad, who, once, in a Very Important Meeting, heard a colleague say "And the question is ... " and found himself responding out loud with the only appropriate answer ...

Can this white man sing the blues?

Badger in the mist

September '06.

What were they looking for?

Traffic update for Surrey, 1st April 2007, 2.45pm

Some tailbacks developing on the A281, following a build up of waterfowl in the road.

Red

Pacing myself (ii) ...

My housemate captured this beautiful tiny snail that had snuck in with our grape harvest. 'nuff said.

Growing on me

In response to Lorianne's fabulous orange fungus I remembered this beautiful red-topped mushroom that my housemate and I discovered in a forest in the highlands of scotland last week.

I require no friendly experts or toadstool tomes to identify the type. It's a smurf-house!

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