Well, what do I have in the mural photo folder?
Phyliss and Kosov went off to church tonight after spending three hours in the kitchen cooking fresh tamarind something with the outside temperature being 38/100. The air con must have been working hard. Phyliss wanted me to make bread in the bread maker, and I did have a packet of bread mix, just add water. I had a heavily buttered slice, but they have eaten a whole loaf! I did tell them it doesn't keep very well.
As my father would say, Phyliss went off to church dressed up like a pox doctor's clerk. Kosov, his usual not noticeable style of dressing, although at times with a cap on, he can look like a threatening hoodie. St Francis apparently accepted the nominally Hindu Kosov and the pox doctor's clerk into the church. I asked Phyllis to say a prayer to St Francis for me, and Kosov to make a Hindu chant.
Oh, yes murals. Faces! What are they thinking?
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That second mural is grim!
ReplyDeleteWhat are they thinking indeed.
ReplyDeleteI haven't heard the phrase ''pox doctor's clerk' since my father died.
The first face is wondering, "what am I doing on this wall?" while the second is thinking "what the heck am I doing on this b---dy wall!"
ReplyDeleteThat second face is thinking " Hmm ... a pox doctor's clerk. Can I eat a whole one?"
ReplyDeleteI just visited the lane on Friday. Love the new portraits there
ReplyDeleteBoth of today's murals are just the tiniest bit frightening.
ReplyDeleteA pox doctor's clerk?
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised you don't know this Hels, pox been a term for venereal disease, so dressed in flashy manner. I'm sure he who receives the orders in your household will know.
Delete"So dressed in a flashy manner" ???
DeleteWhy would a "pox doctor"'s assistant have reason to be dressed flashily? Other than perhaps because, in a pre-penicillin age (which we will soon be back to as antibiotic resistance increases apace) doctors selling cures for venereal disease were able to trade so effectively on the guilt factor when hawking their largely ineffective nostrums [nostra?] that even their assistants were in a position to dress flashily? (Or perhaps flash dressing was part of the advertisement of the cures, despite their general dodginess, and yes, the shame/guilt thing.) In Australia the phrase is said to have gained currency in WWII (though Eric Partridge cited it in the '30s so maybe a reprise of WWI lingo) so there could be an element of macho bragadaccio and tough/dirty talk in its popularisation. (Doubt if the civilian women who must also have been infected* joked about this stuff in the same way.)
*doubt if much homosex in the forces got to the point of substantial infection.
St Frannie's is very welcoming I understand. I went in once and bolts of lightning didn't strike me down. My middle son's inlaws sing in the choir, I believe. The murals are not good. I was going to say hideous but that is a bit cruel. I hope they are not an accurate representation of anyone.
ReplyDeleteThe two mural people are probably thinking, "Hope Lord Andrew will not get hurt by the two scallywags he has taken in".
ReplyDeleteI hope I can remember “dressed like a pox doctors clerk”. Hilarious, never heard it before. Marie, Cheltenham
ReplyDeleteLook how pale that bearded guy's face is. He should see a pox doctor!
ReplyDeleteI love your running description of the two of them
ReplyDeletelol..that expression is one I use occasionally, Andrew.
ReplyDeleteThat's the trouble with homemade bread you have to eat it all the same day.
Two interesting murals.
The first thing I thought on seeing the Murals was " I wish I could draw/paint like that."
ReplyDeleteAlison in Wales x
100 (f) degrees there, and it is snowing here. I Porsche just got stuck in front of the building. A great day to sit home and watch.
ReplyDeleteThey do make one think.
ReplyDeleteShe looks happy but him not so much.
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