For Fiona Phipps Lewis Cooper and Paul Dixon

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I like this a lot. Michael, great colour and the lady, below, is superb.

Posted by Willie Drea on Sun 26 Feb 10:05:52

Smashing!

Posted by Heather Love on Sun 26 Feb 10:19:33

Thanks Willie and Heather. Some fierce faces there.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Sun 26 Feb 10:25:26

Good one Michael 🙂

Posted by Stephen Hulse on Sun 26 Feb 10:27:13

Thanks Stephen.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Sun 26 Feb 10:33:35

What a bunch of characters and so well painted. I was never a matelot, but I knew quite a lot back in the stone age. It always seemed to me that sailors knew how to live.

Posted by Lewis Cooper on Sun 26 Feb 12:07:14

Thanks Lewis. I recalled you were in the RMs - a mariner indeed.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Sun 26 Feb 12:16:04

Which one am I Mick? Lol. Please don’t say the one with the beard…..mine isn’t grey yet! More than shipmates, it’s a brotherhood…..a close knit band of brothers who would sacrifice, and go through hell and high waters for one another.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Sun 26 Feb 13:28:11

The nicest one Fiona.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Sun 26 Feb 15:44:04

Great work!

Posted by Spencer Lambeth-Angell on Sun 26 Feb 15:58:27

Thanks Spencer.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Mon 27 Feb 05:17:10

Love it, Michael1 Characterful as ever!

Posted by Thalia Stones on Mon 27 Feb 13:36:25

Nice present Michael.

Posted by Coral Pastor Caparrós on Mon 27 Feb 16:40:58

Thanks Thalia and Coral.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Mon 27 Feb 17:45:31

Hang on Studio Wall

26/02/2023

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Old Shipmates. Watercolour.

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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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