A note on priest's socks

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Good one Michael

Posted by Dennis Rounding on Thu 26 May 16:54:46

😄😄 love it Michael, great little painting.

Posted by Carole Swingler on Thu 26 May 17:01:33

A lovely piece of dialogue Michael and the sketch is great too.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Thu 26 May 17:01:36

Thank you Dennis, Carole and Adele.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Thu 26 May 17:57:34

Father ted's one of my favourites, and you've done a great job on this characature.

Posted by andre mulard on Thu 26 May 19:02:06

Thanks Andre. We clearly share the same type of humour.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Thu 26 May 19:03:15

Brilliant. Thanks!

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Thu 26 May 20:07:20

Thanks Gudrun.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Thu 26 May 21:21:03

And black they are Michael! Or are they blue? Lovely little watercolour.

Posted by Satu Vartiainen on Fri 27 May 07:24:09

Thanks Satu.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Fri 27 May 07:53:11

Hang on Studio Wall

26/05/2016

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Watercolour. Dougal: "I read in an article, I think it was an article about priests socks, that priests socks are blacker than other types of sock" Ted: "That's right Dougal, sometimes you see lay people wearing what look like black socks, but when you look at them closely, you'll see that they are very very very very very very dark blue" Dougal: "That's right, I thought my uncle Tommy was wearing black socks, but when I looked closely, I seen that they were very very very very VERY very very very very dark blue"

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Michael Mcmanus

I was born in 1946. In the 1960s and part of the 70s I was an airman in the Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm. I joined Durham Constabulary in 1971. In 1999 I retired from policing and began teaching sociology and criminology at Durham University with emphasis on policing and researching crime. I am drawn…

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