A Nautical Theme / June 26 2008
Audrey and I passed an old man near the shops this morning who had apparently just fallen over. He was already being helped by several people so I did not feel obliged to stay and offer any assistance myself.
Moving on, towards the post office (I had several letters to post and needed to stock up on chinagraph pencils), I overheard a couple of women talking about the incident.
‘The old fellow lost his glass eye on the pavement,’ one of them said. ‘It fell eye-down and nobody knows what the back of a glass eye looks like.’ I believe it was entirely possible to appreciate the point she was making, although her assertion did sound faintly ridiculous.
It made me think of the sea captain from the Simpsons and also, for some inexplicable reason, my new artist friend Katy who lives a few doors down from Audrey and me. She was decorating the outside of her house when I said hello to her on the way to the pub with Nelson on Sunday and the results of her efforts looked quite wonderful: very much like one of the quay-side cottages in St Ives in Cornwall that my little companion and I are hankering after.
An auspicious omen if ever I saw one.
Filed under Art / Cornwall / English Village Life / Audrey / Pretty Girls
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2 comments on “A Nautical Theme”
Nelson Galaxy / June 27th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Am I your little companion or is it Audrey?
Napoleon Fantastic / June 28th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Audrey. You’re a bad influence.
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