Warning

This combination made me think of Jenny Joseph's famous Warning Poem:

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to spit.


I didn't pick these. Or the bird of paradise in extras. I haven't had made many photo opportunities recently, and I had to spare you more alleycats. Even I'm getting a bit bored with them, although they all know me now.


At Spanish conversation class today we each had to talk about a painting, and Susy chose a Danish artist I'd never heard of, Vilhelm Hammerskoi. I really liked the picture she chose, which is also the most expensive Danish painting ever sold. When I googled it just now, I found that he painted dozens of very similar ones of his wife in this room, which makes it slightly less special, but I still like this one because of the empty space, not even a chair.  Apparently he was colour-blind, which is presumably why it's all in tones of grey, beige, black and white. Wonder what he would have made of this blip?