It took some time, which might be me, however, I enjoyed it greatly. Of the many images 'The Corn-Crake' remains a favourite.
The bird is caught in the split second before launching itself into a dash for cover, a spearlike configuration of beak and bum! It is interesting to think that Bewick would have been driven half mad in early summer with the 'kreck, kreck'. Now we have to travel to the Inner Hebrides for our dose of May madness.
A visit to the Cotes museum in Bournemouth provides lots of visual stimulation
(Lots of Victorian paintings of young ladies with little else but a few whispy things attached. All in the interest of studying your Ancient Greeks no doubt...Ed)
Yes a picture did catch my eye and it was a representation of women -
Spanish Market Women at Bilbao by Eusebio Perez de Valleurca
Of course we do not know what they are saying but we do know what they are saying. The two figures we see to our left are
deep in sotto voce
I really, really love him!
Pobrecita! He's just like all the rest!
(Glad to see you back. Are you looking a bit peaky...Ed?)
Just a cold since you ask. Nothing a hot drink, warmth and an editor who is given to litotes won't cure!
