a NYC cat story

I turned up this story when i casually clicked on a pic of a huge cat (i want a red Maine Coon).
It makes Hackney seem like Enid Blyton territory.
http://mcgonnigle.wordpress.com/2007/07/15/maine-coon-cats-bigger-than-dogs/

Bloody hell : o

well-timed praise

Following walk+talk in Milbank on Saturday, workwise i got this response about my latest LAMB paintings, (recent jpegs were asked 4) - viz:

"..... on Saturday...really enjoyed talking with you about art...

Your painting is quite wonderful...full of tense emotion...love and portents to destruction.....

You should exhibit it..."

As i only really began painting in 2007 having concentrated on other media, my style has changed in great leaps -- sideways, forward, wherever, but definitely not remaining static. I always thought that couldn't be a bad thing : )
I work in an almost completely intuitive way with absolute confidence. Its nice all the same to get a nod from any of the Big Guys along the way.
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Eyes in the Ceiling : §

at Blenheim Palace where lived fascinating famous beauty Gladys Deacon (referred to in BBC's A History of Surgery) who in 1903 paid a doctor to inject boiling hot paraffin wax into her nose in an attempt to create a perfect Grecian profile. The wax was so hot that the medic had to wrap the syringe in a cloth; he then had 30 seconds to attempt to reshape the nose.
It was a disaster.
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