Here Comes The Sun

Suddenly it's summer. Well, no, not really, but if you shut your eyes to the bare branches you might well believe it. I started off yesterday in a tee shirt with a padded shirt over the top (my usual winter wear) and mid-morning the padded shirt came off.

Sir Robert De Shurland On Grey Dolphin

Reproduced from The Edinburgh Edition of The Ingoldsby Legends, Bentley 1882.

I think the artist is George du Maurier-

The story- which is fantastical, gruesome and funny- can be read here.