bathroom fittings and bathsheba ... seeing one led to a curiosity about the other ...

these were in the top of a cabinet in the V&A and i stood on tiptoe with arms aloft to photograph them ...

on the way home i began to wonder about the tale of  bathsheba ... and all the silly pictures her story provoked

the story itself ... i read a few chapters from a modern translation but lost interest, or rather lost patience ... on the face of it, its the usual tribal propaganda you get in most ancient myths

... to be continued ...

i was shocked ... then delighted ... to encounter this picture in the national portrait gallery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L2aUSSfO38

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TyzAAwJnIw

http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/eggleston/exhibition.php

spain ... nearly thirty years ago .. the british were setting a bad example.

we've only got four lire, there's no way you're gonna charge us a florin to enter this poxy disco ...

if only my knee were'n't so stiff, i could give myself a heartfelt kick ... i used to dismiss dufy's work as careless ... of course it suddenly becomes obvious that he aspired to be "CAREFREE", innit ... a day later, i discover that in my ignorance i have conflated the paintings of the brothers raoul dufy and jean dufy, so i'm weeding out some of jean's pictures and devoting this to raoul ...