My chemo-brain quips have been improving since I have been doing this blog – I haven’t had many for a while. Mainly I get names mixed up now. I was able to correct typos about floods in Columbia instead of writing Cumbria.
I have been obsessed with Venice too for some reason lately. I actually booked a flight to Venice instead of Vienna where I will visit friends – that proved costly; I called a woman Venice instead of Veronica, and on New Year’s Day, I announced that we were having Venice pie instead of venison pie
SNIPS & SNAPS 
I Adonis your Venus!
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Oh, brilliant. You have my permission to open a bottle of wine and spend the evening in a self-congratulatory haze. (Let’s face it, there’s nothing decent on TV tonight.)
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You have a TV? The wine was already open – and I have a TV too, but I’ve never been able to work the remote…
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Once I’ve opened the wine I can’t find the TV, never mind the remote. But the great thing about being vision impaired is, you always have an excuse for falling over.
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Ha Ha! Ah Venice in blue jeans…
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Amazing the stunts the brain can pull. Many years ago I lost a chunk of my vision and had to retrain myself to read. Said brain was very resistant, and also displayed an alarming tendency towards what my optometrist called “the literary equivalent of Tourettes syndrome.” One time I was hurrying through town and saw a newspaper billboard that said “Committee Calls for Copulation”. I thought, No-o-o, turned back, and read “Committee Calls for Consultation.” Yes, indeed.
And that’s all I can reveal in polite company.
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Oh Dear! Nothing as embarrassing for me – but I had to relearn my times tables – they are better now than they were before.
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I gained a whole new perspective on the human brain – a lazy little creep that won’t do a tad more than we force it too. But if it’s so lazy, who/what makes it clean up (literally, in my case) its act? Or, in your case, re-learn its times tables? BTW, did you have any problem remembering favourite recipes?
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Yes! Missing out vital ingredients. I have to write them all down now. Did you do that?
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And, I have absolutely no excuse for my (lame) brain!
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Ah, well. I was hoping that the lame brain might be good at Food and Sex in that order. Because, let’s face it, Mother Nature only wants us to Stay Alive and Reproduce.
But you have to write down ingredients. Alas, I never did. The message I got from said brain was, don’t expect me to interpret those little black marks on a page.
So there goes a great theory about brain function and our chance of a Nobel prize.
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I used to get a lot of Epilepsy brain issues like that. As I get older I think they’re more down to age than my odd brain though. 🙂
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I’m intrigued by the writing on the barrel. It looks as if it might say Aeroporto, which would, of course, be a nonsense.
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Can you see the aeroplane in the sky? I posted it because I booked a flight to Venice instead of Vienna. The original, painted by Turner in 1836 is of Flint Castle. Some prankster has cleverly mastered the image of a plane and put aeroporto on the barrel as a statement. Turner always greeted the industrial revolution with glee and was the first to paint the new steam locomotive in a country setting, just as old masters painted windmills, we view this now as quaint. This inspired me to ‘enhance’ old blue and white country plates with wind generators added to with ceramic paints – I should post photos of them at some point. I reproduced this “Turner” j.peg from a sales website: http://www.tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com/2012/03/venice-paintings – In 2012 they posted it under a Venice paintings heading and accredited it to Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851 – which of course you are correct in saying is a nonsense. I would love to know who the real artist is that has fooled this website.
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I completely missed the plane, but I’ll always focus on the words rather than the picture. It’s very clever.
The link doesn’t seem to work, but I did eventually find my way to his collection of ‘Venice’ paintings, which includes the Turner, still credited to Turner.
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Ha Ha – the Internet has rewritten too much history – our history will be taught by salesman rather than writers.
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That’s a dreadful thought. I prefer to get my history from books and not the internet, which is slightly ironic since I blog about history.
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Just read your great post Chandos Herald and the Life of the Black Prince – you are a reputable, vital source of blogging for future historians.
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Thank you.
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