I needed to get my tennis fix - here we are in England with Wimbledon in Day 3 and I haven't seen any yet. We have no TV in the hobbit house. So off we went to to the JCR (Junior Common Room) this afternoon. Things have been moved around to make a computer lab for the Georgia Tech students, but there is a large TV in there still. After a while, I became aware of the painting on the wall. The one obscured by the TV. It looked kind of familiar, and closer inspection revealed that it was a Paul Nash. There on the JCR wall, obscured by a TV.
The Head of Security is becoming well known to us as he also supervises telephone communications and it was he who brought the BT men to the house. I recognized his tie pin as the Ox & Bucks regiment as my granddad was in that regiment during World War I. think he was pleased that I knew what it was. The phone handset was very old and when it was fixed it scared us half to death the first time it rang. It sounded like a parrot being strangled. So when he gave us a brand new one later today, I asked about the painting - yes, it's a Nash and it's alarmed. I saw some Hogarths in a meeting room yesterday which I assumed were prints...
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Hello there! It is so great to read of your adventures in jolly ol'! I promise to become a faithful reader! Have a blast and keep em coming! Lee
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