Cloudesley Shovel is a fantastic name. If you addressed him, you'd have to use his full name because just thee first or Mr. Shovel just isn't good enough.
Oh, good grief. Maybe he meant for his wig to represent his first name? Try giving that name to some poor kid now - I'd call him 'Des' but I'll bet for the surname they put the emphasis on the VELL. And doesn't the round man loll in splendid nakedness on his crypt?
Quite an unusual name. His statue reminds me of the small busts of composers that stared down at me during childhood piano lessons from my long-suffering piano teacher. And it seems like he had a life like a character in a novel, particularly the terrible shipwrecks and the legends. Did the Pythons ever get a hold of him?
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Does that remind you of how my hair used to look! teehe.
Cloudesley Shovel is a fantastic name. If you addressed him, you'd have to use his full name because just thee first or Mr. Shovel just isn't good enough.
Oh, good grief. Maybe he meant for his wig to represent his first name? Try giving that name to some poor kid now - I'd call him 'Des' but I'll bet for the surname they put the emphasis on the VELL. And doesn't the round man loll in splendid nakedness on his crypt?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cloudesleyshovellmemorial.jpg
Hahaha! Yes, I do remember that look. Sheesh! I'm glad you grew out of it.
Isn't it splendid, Robyn? Try using it in a story and nobody would believe you.
It's one of the truly great camp death poses, Speedway.
Quite an unusual name. His statue reminds me of the small busts of composers that stared down at me during childhood piano lessons from my long-suffering piano teacher.
And it seems like he had a life like a character in a novel, particularly the terrible shipwrecks and the legends. Did the Pythons ever get a hold of him?
You would rock that wig.
Ah, I remember those, Ms.M. I always liked the Beethoven one; he looked so magnificently grumpy.
Kate, I would look like Brian May and that's too awful to contemplate.
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