i painted two of these tables a few years ago ...

... and sold them to two delightful tarot readers, cheap !

i cribbed the zodiac layout from the great clock currently under restoration in San Marco in Venice, but made some changes

Pisces became two Brighton dolphins

Virgo was the girl at the Library in Hove

Gemini were vaguely like a couple of Brighton dykes

charles williams, my mother's father, began work as an engine cleaner in a shed like this ...

... before the first world war

 

the station cat flounces off in search of true love & catsmeat

the station cat at sheffield park, pretending to be starved of affection ..

... everyone knows cats are born with a vocational qualification in emotional blackmail

 

my mum smoked hers in the outside loo ...

 

you don't see many gaslights nowadays

 

no kitty, kitty ! not that kind of litter ...

 

this lad's got a square tongue ... and a sailor suit

 

exactly where and when ...

did you first learn to pronounce these words and begin to understand their meanings ?