I didn't have a headache this morning, though my eyeballs felt unusually tender!
I had forgotten I had booked lunch with a friend for next Sunday and not this, so at a loose end, I took myself to a local art gallery for a mooch and for some lunch.
The exhibits were interesting.
But not quite as impressive as the gallery attendants hairy calves which caught my attention much more than the pink animal sideboard!
They were lovely and just as impressive as his trendy twirled moustache!
To cool off I took myself to the cafe and was given a very large gold number three to let the server know what table to bring my sandwich.
" Thats a bit camp!" I told the staff
" You should see our number 7 ...it's fabulous !" the server replied.
I sat and ate my sandwich as the gallery attendant with the lovely calves sat down nearby to eat his lunch. With such a lovely view all too much I went to look at some more of the art and with my left over birthday money bought myself a flying bird sculptured from a broad palate knife!
Flying bird by Rachel Sumner
Albert and my Art Wall at home
I've just had a nosey at your lovely Art Wall John and zooming in I can see my Thatch lookalikey x
ReplyDeleteCan you? Where?
DeleteThe top left hand corner John x
DeleteGalleries do have some different exhibits, don't they! What a massive table number, did they go to double figures?
ReplyDeleteI love you Art Wall, John. Albert looks very proud :)
He looks pissed off
DeleteHe was hungry
Some lovely wall art, but my favourite and the most beautiful is Albert.
ReplyDeleteYes, for me too Albert is the 'stand out' feature here - though I do regret not having a pic of those hairy calves. (My imagination is playing havoc!)
DeleteHe's my living art
DeleteAlways in the background
Providing a backdrop of wide eyed tolerance
'A Day in the Life' (or part of one). You have an envious writing talent, JayGee, of making what with others might sound mundane, into something interesting and very special. Your posts just leap from the screen!
ReplyDeleteMy life is mundane, I make it interesting for me
DeletePerhaps the gallery assistant was in fact a moving exhibit - "Hairy Calves" by Damien Hirst who was of course at one time famous for making Art from cattle.
ReplyDeleteHe could of been entitled
Delete" cute .25!year old with a lovely kissable moustache "
ALBERT! and really, a pix of mister hairy calves would be a showstopper!
ReplyDeleteI would have been arrested
DeleteThat is quite an enviable personal gallery you have going at home there John. LOVE the blue bird!!
ReplyDeleteYes now what should I call him?
DeleteAnswers on a postcard
May your week be filled with harry calves.
ReplyDeleteMay my bed
DeleteJust Harry???
DeleteThat's the spirit John! ; )
DeleteAlbert looks quite the work of art.
ReplyDeleteEgyptian perhaps ?
DeleteYour art wall is growing. Hairy calves, umm..doesn't really do it for me !
ReplyDeleteIt's grown since Chris left, he took the one limited edition print which looked like Trelawnyd church
DeleteMy art has replaced it
I understand the premise behind art from scrap but that sideboard is stretching the idea. To me it still looks like rubbish.
ReplyDeleteAnd to me too. It also looks crappily done.
DeleteI think it's a unicorn made by a child possibly x
DeleteTo be fair the other side looked more interesting
Deletealbert might want that bird. i love your art wall. everyone should have one.
ReplyDeleteThe project has pleased me
DeleteLove the bird
ReplyDeleteThank you tayz
DeleteThe bird is lovely...much nicer than the sideboard! As Raybeard said, you DO have the knack of making a great tale from what could sound mundane...you are our answer to Davis Sidaris - just as funny, but a bit kinder! BBC are you listening?
ReplyDeleteSidaris is my king
DeleteI adore him and his writing
Your numbers conversation made me laugh.
ReplyDeleteShe was right 7 was covered in glitter
DeleteThe flying bird makes a nice addition to your art wall.
ReplyDeleteIt does doesn't it
DeleteThe Flying Bird is fabulous and the Art Wall is wonderful.
ReplyDeleteAlbert fits right in.
parsnip
High praise from a true artist
DeleteI LOVE your art wall and that new bird. But I'm disappointed. No photos of hairy calves. I see mostly shaved ones in our neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteI will send u one of mine or failing that Winnie's
DeleteHairy calves, be still my beating heart. Your art wall is a thing of beauty, with Albert looking looking like it's curator, sweet boy.
ReplyDeleteBe still my beating heart, is one of my saying s
DeleteI like a hairy man!
ReplyDeleteGet in the queue
DeleteHe looks like George from George and Mildred
ReplyDeleteWho does
DeleteAnother gorilla lover here. Keeps a girl warm in winter
ReplyDeleteGreat purchase, I really like it!
ReplyDeleteIt looks a bit like a spitfire
Deletegood to have new art around the home..keeps us artists going as well!!
ReplyDeletewas that the Mostyn gallery?
It was , my favourite place recently
DeleteAlbert looks as if he's guarding the art works. If anyone goes too close, they'll have a snarling cat to contend with.
ReplyDeleteHe was waiting for his dinner.....he is fed on the window sill behind me
DeleteAlbert looks quite handsome showing off your art wall. I do love your art wall and I know each piece has meaning which is as it should be.
ReplyDeleteIt does .....every one has a meaning and really important meaning ....art was important to both chris and I and he took most of our paintings ( he bought most of them or they were gifts from me)
DeleteTo be fair he said he would leave them to me if he died, but as I much older I declined the offer
What! So you took pics of everything except the hairy calves....?
ReplyDeleteI thought about it but I would have been arrested
DeleteIf the hairy calved chap followed you to the café you could have been in with a chance! Yet you walked away!
ReplyDeleteWho is the "friend" in the top photo on the sidebar?
He was around 25 so well off limits
DeleteThe two friends in the top photo are my Sheffield friends
Mike ( very Sheffield very straight) and Jane ( who was kissing me) she was my one serious girlfriend before I went gay! Lol
Sorry off subject, but what happened with the This is me contest did I miss something ??
ReplyDeleteTomorrow the winner will be shown it may surprise some
DeleteI'm liking your art wall more and more. I have one, too. It makes me happy.
ReplyDeleteIt's all mine ...no one else's
DeleteLove the bird - how original. Preferable to the pink animal sideboard anyway!!
ReplyDeleteAlbert is such a poser isn't he?
Loving how your eclectic wall is growing.
ReplyDeleteAlbert what a handsome lad! My hubby is of a slim, muscular build (he can eat his own bodyweight in food and never put on an ounce) but has a cracking pair of footballer's legs so I understand the attraction completely.
ReplyDeleteGood on you for checking out the fellas. Nice picture of your art and Albert.
ReplyDeleteI like the bird, good choice.
ReplyDeleteAh, so you're a leg man, eh? Love the bird!
ReplyDeleteI feel you. I always get distracted by nice man legs in the summer.
ReplyDeleteLove the vintage photo and positively love the art wall. Really cool.
XoXo
Lovely art wall John, love the sense of freedom of the bird in flight.
ReplyDeleteGuy in top picture looks like George
ReplyDeleteExcellent post, John. I too am intrigued by "top picture" guy and believe he may have a bushy tail.
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