Meet Granny Rose, Colin's mother, who is visiting us in the hobbit house for a week. She leaves next Thursday to visit friends who live near Newbury and then she will eventually make her way back to Whitby in Yorkshire where she lives.This afternoon we strolled over the street to the Ashmolean Museum which is really just a few minutes away. I wasn't prepared for the delightful experience that awaited me therein. As an Art struck teenager I was a big Pre Raphaelite fan - I had a poster of the Lady of Shallot on my college bedroom wall. I loved the red haired women with Botox lips, the vivid colors of their dresses and the romantic subject matter. The Ashmolean has a large collection of Pre Raphaelite paintings. And 16th century Dutch still lifes. And 20th century English painters like the Camden Town Group. And Constables. And a Picasso. And, and, and...
I need to write and schedule an appointment to see the Michelangelo and Leonardo drawings - I can't wait.
We rounded off the visit with a late lunch in the Museum Cafe - tuna and roasted vegetable sandwiches, chocolate cake and a bottle of Speyside Glenlivet still water " bottled at source from our own underground spring, located high in the beautiful and unspoiled mountainous Braes of Glenlivet"
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that will make a strange painting.
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