1. Yes 2. Of course, I hadn't spotted that. 3. & 4. Most likely. 5. or a simpleton. 6. I thought might be a local churchman, the hint of horns in the hair and the bovine ears together with the pompous expression suggesting a person of absolute conviction of his own importance with a total absence of imagination. 7. I wondered possibly a local saint or nun? 8 & 9. Are leonine and bovine respectively, possibly heraldic badges of a local dignitary?
And no Rog, I did not mean you to include do - ra - mi etcetera among the notes. (hope I wasn't misreading your mind there.)
ReplyDelete(1) A slightly stylised Green Man.
ReplyDelete(2) 'Tudor' roses.
(3 & 4) Probably 'village worthies'.
(5) A fool/jester.
1. Yes
ReplyDelete2. Of course, I hadn't spotted that.
3. & 4. Most likely.
5. or a simpleton.
6. I thought might be a local churchman, the hint of horns in the hair and the bovine ears together with the pompous expression suggesting a person of absolute conviction of his own importance with a total absence of imagination.
7. I wondered possibly a local saint or nun?
8 & 9. Are leonine and bovine respectively, possibly heraldic badges of a local dignitary?
Should there be a collective noun for these? A "Grimace" perhaps?
ReplyDeleteI like it Rog, it would go with a garderobe of gargoyles perhaps?
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