Dungeness in the rain. Keeping warm. 2013

*A special | Hot off the wall*

Thought I might keep this lil' beaut.. But, you can have it.. *I'm on fire today..

Oil on a canvas from the mighty 'Pearl paint N.Y.' - 10 cm circumference 'Budget range'

Price - £200.oo

Good Voodoo | Not too Ba$her

Joldine Moate 'The chief smokeress' prepares to set Rye on fire in the evening after a good days work in the Dungeness Smokery

Moates (Kes & Joldine team) - *The only smokehouse on Dungeness beach.. The Dungeness smokery - http://www.the-dungeness-smokery.blogspot.co.uk/

*Personally, I can vouch for the carefully prepared varieties of oak smoked fayre..

I eat some every day of the week..

So far.. Cod, Kippers, Bloaters, prawns, other varieties locally caught on the day in the bay - Smoked cheeses *Goats cheese*, Garlic + more..

*New range - Gently smoked oatcakes (a winner) -

It's allgood..

On the $tones..

Punch 'n' Judy | re-make-remodel-re-shape

The 'Twister canon' increases incrementally

Punch 'n' Judy revealed

Sinister reveal

*New Twisters evolving before my eyes | re-make-remodel-re-shape

The 'leaner' | re-make-remodel-re-shape

St Jude's creates .. 'The Twist'

'The Final Dance' has begun..

LA MANCHE in a longshore frenzy | Les Loups

Structurally amended by St Jude | 'The gerege'

Dungeness Beach the 'gerege'

*Amended after the St Jude's day storm - Structural remodelling | re-make-remodel-re-shape..

La Manche on the boil

Solution | SIMPLES

... flying vicar ...

... redundant components ...

Tree thirty five

In and around our very own.. Tree 35

Energy balls - http://www.phschool.com/science/science_news/articles/anatomy_of_lightning.html

Rust n Vodka

It must be Friday

An afflatus on a walk west..

Inspirator - walked by this playful structure a hundred times..

Seasonal dramas on a walk East to West let me see it...

As if for the first time

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* Earlier on..
Made me think that today was a day..

To look around

'Man pinny' in Studio 2

*Joining in with the trends on the $tones..

It rained heavily | desperate measures required

A selfie sans self

Also I have joined a 'new society' - Clubstyle details below..

I'm sworn to secrecy re: details..

Wavey Schparklie man

Stranded in Lydd..

Nice people came to my aid

Gurnard, Plaice 'n' Dabs

Dabs are the fish of choice - Delicious simply prepared and fried with buttery brown bread -

Or.. Sandwiched between a floury bap of course... (!)

Gurnards make you think...

Appear like, kind of..

Angels

http://www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/roast-gurnard-recipe

Boum, Boom, boome, Boom, Boom, Boom Boom BOOME..

The Log man plays a blinder... Another time: Boone boom Boome, Boom, Boom, Boom Boom BOOME..

*In that.. Most excellent 'Showtime' | Nureyev $tyle - Loveit

lest we forget the summer

a nice cup of tea
will always revive the parts
that need it

Out on a Fish Hut boat | Kes Moate

Spectacular moments as they occur once 'safely' out tharr & gently swaying..

Photo: Kes Moate - *Will hopefully give a..

Fuller picture to the world of that poetic that exists 'round here on the daily basis..

*Allgood in the.. long run.. ? - (!)

Turned out nice again..

Portrait of Kes & his hand made Shrimper.. *It's an eight footer*

I'd like to be... An ichthyocentaur

Enlightening in the murk | The deepe & dark.. *Courtesy of the Smithsonian

his sea pig, which was compared to heretics that distorted truth and lived like swine, lived in the North Sea on Olaus Magnus’s 1539 Carta Marina, a lushly illustrated map that inspired many after it. Public Domain. Read more: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/2013/10/the-enchanting-sea-monsters-on-medieval-maps/#ixzz2hsxoijrC Follow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter

+ A wee bit like that, which is scattered on the Koffy table at the dentists - *But good browsing nevertheless - Ocean Portal

Glorious (Autumn) Technicolor

New series brewing | In the L.A.B.

Normal $tuffe | Banal... &, yet..

... But, can't quite
Put yer finger on it...

On the corner | It's brightening up...

On the corner in the Dreich - The beach jewel is still there under the leaden skies

Full set of 'On the corner' images Here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/paddyhamilton/sets/72157614410004182/ Makes for a good slideshow

*Happy to be alive... Regardless of the murk