Family Portrait


We lunched on the  Rock

Just Patricia and me

On champagne and lobsters

And some cake from Dundee

Our uber was a sailboat

Crossing the sea           

Fetching the family

For afternoon tea

The painting was commissioned from Rob Hain, an artist from the Scottish Borders region, noted for his empathy with and affinity to the Scottish Landscape.

It is indeed a family portrait.  You can see clearly that I am wearing my barrister’s wig.    In the boat are our two children James and Gavan.  James’s wife Heather is also in the boat.

Peter Matthews, in the comments, correctly identified the representation of us all, as  being completely accurate!      I admire Peter and trust his judgement in many things but I doubt he has much future as an art critic.

The rock is of course Rockall, an uninhabited island set in the North Atlantic ocean.  

Ownership is occasionally contested as between Ireland and the UK although in international law, it belongs to the UK.  

 It is therefore entirely appropriate that dinning on the Rock is an English barrister and an Irish professor!

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