Man With Sheep – Picasso

During my research yesterday,  I think I have uncovered the reason that my sheep fancying golfing accomplice, Steve Weston,  lives in Cannes.  It appears that Picasso spent a number of years in nearby Valluaris, and did his first works experimenting with clay.  Apparently, so taken with Vallauris as a town, and as a thank you to the  townsfolk, Picasso produced a work in bronze called Man with Sheep, which I reproduce below;

My first reaction is that I have no comment to make, but as the day develops, I believe I will have something to say about this, but invite my readers to contribute any comments that they may wish to make. In the meantime, let me leave this subject with a some information that reached me yesterday.  Did you know that in 1872 the New Zealanders invented the condom using a sheep’s bladder.  In 1873 the English refined this idea by removing the bladder from the sheep first..

Many of you will know that I am a big test cricket fan and I follow all the test cricket playing nations to try to predict the results.  With that in mind, I can confirm that The Pakistani team beat Somerset by 5 wickets next Thursday.

It was slightly windy yesterday, so not being a good sailor, I decided to delay my trip to the Cannes Boat Show until today (that and my free tickets did not arrive!) so I shall be visiting today. I will almost certainly feel it my duty to ensure that there has been no slippage of the standards of the beach restaurants whilst i have been absent during summer and so I shall choose one at random to review.  This will mean the customary good review for Rado Plage assuming that I receive the customary good treatment there, if you know what I mean, and I am sure that maitre D, Olivier, knows just what I am thinking.

The wingco has entered us into a tennis tournament at the weekend.  Now I have never had a tennis lesson, and have only ever played with my mates, and although I know I talk a good game, the prospect of playing against proper tennis players in a tournament is somewhat daunting.  Especially if they are french, because if our opponents are English I could at least try to talk them out of. Gamesmanship, as opposed to sportsmanship is my strength, as Mark Gurdon in particular will testify.  If I can get anyone to listen I reckon I can get anyone to have secret  self doubts about their ability or technique.  This method works particularly well on the golf course when one can use phrases like “that water is not really in play” or “watch out  for the bunker on the right” I am afraid that I do not conform to the English stereotype of enjoying the game rather than the victory, I am quite happy to hate the game but enjoy the triumph, which I find is best enjoyed with a bank-note  on my forehead in the bar afterwards.  Magnanimous in victory, sulky in defeat could be my epitaph. 

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