Big and small pebbles

Some join groups
others are loners
mean while they are watched

Yes, but what is it?

What is the subject of the photograph? Is someone walking over my grave, (assuming I had a glass coffin lid)?

In fact it's someone walking over a glass rooflight/ smoke vent which allows a dim stream of daylight into the tunnel connecting South Kensington underground station with the Victoria & Albert Museums, Natural History Museum and Imperial College.



I was walking through the tunnel on my way to Kensington Gardens and a visit to the Serpentine Gallery- one of my favourite art galleries in London.

Pebble ranks

March on

YesBut help

This is a short but nevertheless sincere appeal for help.

Mrs YesBut is addicted to bags. Walking past a bag shop she can't resist, she must go in, its the same with market stalls selling bags. Unfortunately it goes beyond looking. She feels the world will come to a catastrophic end if she walks out of the shop having not bought a bag.

I open a cupboard door and I see rows and rows of bags. I open a bag at random and inside I see a bag. I open the bag and inside is . . . yes a bag.

Is there a mantra I can intone or a potion I can administer to cure her of bagmania.?

How I long to be Bag Less in Seattle.

Pebbles on the move

Left, right, left right
keep in line

Memorial day - 55

Today’s memorial is located in the Victoria Embankment Gardens, London; it was erected to the memory of Sir Arthur Sullivan.

In the nineteenth and into the twentieth century there were few more famous names in the entertainment world than Gilbert & Sullivan. Their names are still synonymous with Light Opera.

Gilbert as librettist and Sullivan as composer collaborated in the production of fourteen comic operas. H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1879), The Mikado (1885) and The Gondoliers (1889) are stilled performed today by armature operatic societies. Their productions were as popular and crowd pleasers then, as musicals are today.

Arthur Sullivan was born in London in May 1842. By the age of eight he could play proficiently all the instruments of a band. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music, then at the Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre in Leipzig. He was an established composer before he joined forces with Gilbert in 1871. There partnership lasted until 1896. As well as operas he composed hymns, the best known being “Onward Christian Soldiers”.

He was knighted in 1883; and died aged 58 in November 1900.

His memorial is the work of Sir George Frampton, R.A., P.R.B.S. (1860 -1928). The most striking feature is the bronze partially clothed figure of a weeping woman. On the left hand side of the base are a lute and theatrical mask, the symbols of music and comedy. Sullivan’s bronze bust looks forward, a moustached Victorian gentleman.

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Is this a proverb?

We were walking along, when Mrs YesBut turned to me and said "If wishes were horses, man could fly".

I asked, "where did that come from?".

She said she didn't know.

Googled the phrase, while there are similar phrases, nothing exactly the same.

Can you help by providing an explanation?

I'm baffled - though that's nothing new, Mrs YesBut frequently confounds me.