The shitting dog
November 13, 2007
A couple of miles down the road from our house on your way to Neist Point, you come through the village of Glendale. Just past the community hall, on your right, you will find a little restaurant called “An Strupag” (Gaelic for “cup of tea”). It’s a very special place and you have to be there to understand what it’s like. Besides good local food (we recently tasted the Cullen Skink which was delicious), they show a bit of artwork in a small gallery as you pass to the back of the place to visit the toilets.
Among the artwork on display are some small paintings depicting local scenery. All pictures are reasonably priced, somewhere between £10.00 and £50.00. That is… all but one. There’s one tiny painting, titled “Dog shitting in field” and its price tag reads… £1,000.00… Yes, that’s right! A whopping £1,000.00!! The painting shows a bright summer field with a human figure standing in it. Next to him/her there’s a shape of a border collie - not specifically painted in a certain position - but the suggestive title does its inevitable work here…
In total disbelief we left (”That must have been a printing error!”) but we will investigate further and report!!
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