Trouble

Do you find trouble rarely arrives alone😳?

Like this for example🤨:
My shower decided to shower upwards while the ceiling paint clearly upset by this and trying to set an good example, started to peel off and shower down.
I’m no plumber however even I know showers are more effective showering down.
(Solution?
Remove the head, let it dry, squeeze the calcium out of each rubber nozzle then soak the head in warm white vinegar for 5 hours.
Important, remember to reattach shower head before trying to take another shower).

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Ukraine

Ukraine authorities say seized Russian tanks don’t need to be declared on tax form.

(Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
Great sense of humour from the #Ukraine government during this crisis; but then their #President is Jewish so it’s to be expected.🙂
💥“Have you captured a Russian tank or armoured personnel carrier 👍and are worried about how to declare it😑? Keep calm and continue to defend the motherland!” Ukraine’s National Agency for the Protection against Corruption (NAPC) said, according to the Ukraine arm of the Interfax news service”🙂.

Which reminds me

I need to change my car.
Given how many French people drive, a tank, if the price is right, could be a good idea !

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Glamour !

What a glamorous life I lead? My top quality respect goes to the cleaners I’ve met. How do they do that so well and so quickly? Glamour? Hedges all trimmed, shutters painted, and now today a very clean salon floor. I have this odd feeling that really, I should be working with paintings. Tant piss, … Read more

Autumn

Autumn”A man shall have his seasons as a leaf upon a tree” : should be a painting ! from a traditional English folk song often played in East Sussex when I lived there building boats. I don’t recall the title of the song. I made this photograph a few years astern while living in the … Read more

Out of touch?

Please accept my apology if you have written to me or tried to phone in the past few days and I’ve not replied..
Heavy weather and problems … not unlike this painting which shows HM Sloop Racehorse returning from a voyage of discovery, out of contact and in difficulties.
Racehorse
“put preventer gammoning on bowsprit” her log book larconicly tells us.

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