Had a lovely evening last night, visiting a friend’s house for a meal, conversation, music, molestation by a wet cat etc…… Our friend is a fabulous chef and put on a Middle Eastern spread of mezze followed by tagine. Then some of the chaps cleaned up and here’s one of them doing the dishes. It occurred to me how times have changed. When I was growing up, we didn’t have people round for a meal; there was barely enough food for the family and it was plain British grub – no-one would have a clue what an olive was, let alone mezze and a tagine. And as for men cleaning up?!? Unheard of. Things are so much better now 😀
The cat, Puss Puss, loves water and kept going out into the storm, getting absolutely soaked then coming in, drying herself on the guests and diving back out into the torrential rain again. We reverted to good old-fashioned British grub for dessert – rhubarb crumble – yum!
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Hi..just stumbled across your work, great stuff! I love seeing initial sketches more than anything else I think! I will follow with interest!
Thanks Steve for following and for introducing me to your work 🙂
“Rosie, are you going to dry the pots?”
“No, I’ll just sketch you working!”
hahaha too right!
great drawing and yum yum to the meal 🙂
Thank you – my pal’s a fantastic cook too
When I was a kid all we had was pretty much unadorned American grub, but I do remember that my father washed the dishes afterward! Guess I just assumed every guy did that until I got married!
same here, but in our house the children were responsible for cleaning up after the meal was over
Nice that things have changed 🙂
haha – that must have been a bit of a surprise 🙂