Spooky!

As I said in the comment to Rod's walk of 12th April, Myriam
and I went to Compton Verney to see a van Gogh Exhibition. Not only were there some very fine van Gogh originals, but in an adjoining room I saw a painting by Francis Bacon inspired by van Gogh's own (self-portrait) 'Painter on the road to Tarascon' (1888). I was immediately struck by how similar this was to my Profile photo on this blog. I Googled and found that it was one of a series of six studies, painted in 1956-7, and I have reproduced two of them above. Do you see it? The one at the top, (study ii) is not only the spitten image of me in my poncho taken by David L on the VA, but "The painter" is also wearing what appears to be a Tilley Hat!! It does not stop there. The second one, (study iv) bears a remarkable similarity to the photo I took of "Terry arriving at Marmelete", published in this blog last February 21st!! Of course Terry ruined the occasion by not wearing a Tilley Hat, but I am sure he will put that right when the sub-committee rules on the motion that I proposed and Stan seconded, that to be a Senior Blogger and above of the WW, it will be compulsory to wear a Tilley Hat AND drive a Berlingo.