Kids these days . . .

[ex-khobar Andy]

I still remember standing in front of that picture 53 years ago and being awestruck. One of those memories that will never leave me: like the first time I went over the edge on a coral reef and was unprepared for what I saw; or the first time I saw my future wife (she doesn't remember it - 'What was I wearing?'); or heard the news of Kennedy's assassination.

[Burning Petard]

I contrast this with a book by Henri Nouwen about his internal dialogue as he sat gazing in front of Rembrandt's Return of the Prodigal Son so long that the museum guards had pity on him and brought an upholstered chair for him to sit on.

Snailgate

[MajGenl.Meade]

Some kids . .

Rare 17th-century painting of Charles II unearthed by seven-year-old boy

A seven-year-old history buff unearthed a contemporary 17th-century portrait of Charles II after studying Britain’s kings and queens. Dylan Maggs fell in love with the painting that his mother, Elizabeth Vella, had inherited from her grandparents. She believed it to be a 19th century work and had packed it away. But Dylan convinced her to take it to The Repair Shop, BBC One’s restoration series.

The show’s painting conservator, Lucia Scalisi, painstakingly cleaned and restored the work, along with its tatty frame. Beneath the layers of grime – and soup splashes accumulated while it hung on Elizabeth’s grandparents’ dining room wall – was a highly detailed portrait which Scalisi dated to 1660, in Charles II’s reign.

[Long Run]

Except someone penned in a goofy mustache. Not quite as bad as Mr. Bean and Whistler's Mother but still . . .

[Gob]

I love the repair shop, great series.

[ex-khobar Andy]

Yes it's a great series. Here in the US only one season is available on Netflix and I didn't know (until I looked it up on Wikipedia because I thought we'd watched it all and I did not recall that painting of Charles II) that there have been 100+ episodes. There are some on YouTube.