Husb and I went to The Vojon for a curry earlier this evening and felt a bit portly afterwards, so as it’s a rather lovely evening we went for a long walk along the beach. Swansea Bay is now a lovely golden sweep, very different from the murky, polluted beach of our youth. I stopped to draw some of the fishermen who were strung out along the shoreline in little knots of two and three. On the horizon are the twin islands of Mumbles, a little fishing village at the western end of Swansea Bay [and where Catherine Zeta Jones lives when she’s in town]. Legend has it that in the dim and distant past, French matelots sailing into the Bay saw the islands and exclaimed ‘Mamelles! Mamelles!’ [Breasts! Breasts!]. The name Mumbles is supposed to have come from this. I’ll leave it to you to decide how bosomy the islands are.
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It’s a beautiful area… the mumbly breasts!!
hehehe it is indeed gorgeous, especially on a day like today. I have an allotment there, underneath the castle and I’ll be there all afternoon. Lucky me 🙂
What a great place for an allotment!! lucky you indeed.. 😀
hard work though. Spent three hours working on it today and hurt all over! 🙂
Love the simplicity of that sketch.
Guessing the French matelots sailing into the bay had not seen any women in a while, makes me think that the story is most likely true 🙂