Tuesday 20 August 2019

Enter my tent and have a fig or two


This little cream jug was part of a larger service from the childhood house of H.I. in Sheffield. I last used it for mint sauce.

It was probably staring at the service as a kid which gave her the life-long love of the palm trees which have featured so heavily in her paintings over the years. She's very fond of Arabs too.

There used to be a whole genre of decoration and decor in the Arabian theme. There were Hollywood sheiks who had their wicked way with any woman they pleased, they were so dashing, exotic and romantic. Fry's used them to sell Turkish Delight.

Prior to 9/11, many women found the wealthy Osama bin Laden very attractive...

20 comments:

  1. Omar Sharrif was to blame in the 1960s

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  2. My mother thought Gaddafi was extremely sexy.

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    1. I fancied his personal protection team.

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    2. He was a horrible dresser.

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    3. I thought that women couldn't resist a man in uniform?

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  3. The drawing of the camel is really bad.

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    1. It's got a nose coming out of the back of its head.

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    2. And what's going on with those legs?!

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  4. Ha! I've just eaten our first fresh Fig of 2019.

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  5. I would definitely have shared my tent with that Turkish Delight geezer.

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    1. There were a few. I worked with one of them in the Marley Tile factory in Cambridge once. He was a twat.

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  6. Fantastic jug. I can imagine being a child, looking at that exotic scene and dreaming of faraway places and people.

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    1. Exactly. I used to imagine walking down Quality Street. Do you know what I am talking about?

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  7. I love the jug but it does look rather large for mint sauce unless you intend to feed an army.

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    1. It's only about 3 inches high Weave, but the photo makes it look bigger.

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  8. I'm glad you put it into perspective. My mother used to collect pitchers of that size, and they were mostly charming.

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