I know the foxes and crows clean up before day break by which time few people have seen our annual slaughter. Our love sick toads just can’t resist the approach to our village, hundreds died each year on rainy nights between January and March. There must have been 20 deaths there tonight. A sad Valentine.
Eggs
Chris Miller showed us his Christmas Meal so I will show you our lunch today in tribute to Blue Genes and her egg diet en France and my daughter who is having trouble with a parrot which will not let her fill his water trough.
Snowy Weather Friends
This is in tribute to my e friends in The States who seem to be having some trouble with snowy weather. Now Mountshang finds his portraits snow capped giving them an appearance of Marge Simpson. Marly has to dig herself out like The Mole in “The Wind In The Willows” and Blue Genes has hoofed […]
E Roscoe Mullins
I have never really liked statues of old men in town centres. Aesthetically they do not appeal and as they tend to be the only sculpture in most towns in England I have without thinking become disinterested. We lived for a short time near Paris when I was about 13, sculpture there was rather more […]
Decanters
Now while we are on wine, I love decanters and this one especially. I hope Blue genes’ shrinks to not now attempt an analysis!
Quaffable
I spent a little time in the wine trade, but times changed and the fun when out of it in the early 1980’s. However I do still enjoy wine (in moderation of course!!). Well we had a celebration last night; I won another commission so a bottle was called for. Now our budget for things […]
Norwich 2005
At the 400th anniversary of Sir Thomas Browne’s birth, I took these pictures which included my Niece looking at a memorial to a very ancient aunt in St. Thomas Mancroft, and a long shot of my Grandfather’s painting “Wist ye not”. (I will post a better image of it up on www.artituk.com in due course.) […]
The Barber Institute (Art Gallery)
The Barber Institute (Art Gallery) has a great exhibition on Parrots in Fine Art until April. Highly recommended. Buzz is a good magazine from Birmingham University. I recommend the article above which appears on the back page of the January issue and is writted by a celebrated academic. Click on the image and it should […]
Topuddle Martyr
Offended here by the smelly socks the late Mr Lovelace, of Tolpuddle Martyr fame, was created by the sculptor Thompson Dagnall from Lancashire (north of the Thames!). Good looking chap, wonder what he would have thought?
Religious Icons
As with so many religious icons this image of motherhood caused much of a “stir” in Merry England when it was erected in Bladon Valley Briantspuddle. Marly’s connection with “the washing of feet” in Cassatt’s painting here on Chris Miller’s blog was a connection I had not made before.http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cassatt/toilette.jpg As the father of four children […]
