Happy New Year!!!!
A second sign for the Royal Standard of England pub:
Here’s the result of a commission to paint the sign for the Royal Standard of England pub. It’s done in Hammerite.
The pub’s by the site of a Roman well and could be the oldest Free House (not brewery owned) in England.
Ode to Alice – 1971 – 1999
For the love of dub prey may I,
Borrow some of your limited time
To impart and confess, a sad tale of death,
Of a shameful and scurrilous crime.
Our dear friend Alice DeBus’s been murdered.
Cut down in her formative years.
Her pain ridden screams as shards tore at her seams
Were deafening but fell on deaf ears.
This a second hand tale from a witness
of the wanton neglect of her health?
No it’s a first bloody handed confession
For her seized heart I’ve broken myself.
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