Donald Macleod "...7 years to get my photos of local knobs & knockers up on the wall"

[AuntDaisy]

Donald M on Twitter - a lovely turn of phrase, a wry sense of humour & a keen eye for detail.

[french frank]

Hah! I've finally just hung my last pictures on the wall (though in my case a watercolour, two aquatints and some clip-framed railway posters). I bought some self-adhesive hooks but misunderstood the advert as I thought I was ordering 6 hooks, but I ordered 6 packets of 6 hooks = 36 hooks. So if anyone needs any self-adhesive picture hooks ... (Pity, if I'd known about DM's knobs and knockers I might have been able to get rid of 20 of them)

[Serial_Apologist]

Knobs and knockers, eh?!

[smittims]

I've always had doubts about Donald; this seems to confirm them. I think he must have gone potty. And then , to want to proclaim it to the world. He makes Michael Jackson seem like G E Moore by comparison. .

Thanks for the offer, ff, but my experience of 'self-adhesive ' coat hooks is thatthey come unadhesive at inconvenient moments.

[Roger Webb]

[QUOTE=french frank;n1336148]Hah! I've finally just hung my last pictures on the wall ........../QUOTE]

So have I, in fact just about every wall in the cottage is covered thus and I've taken to easels, of which I have three dotted about the place....I'm forbidden to buy any more paintings My stairwell has my collection of signed photos of singers.

Edit: photo redacted

[AuntDaisy]

So have I, in fact just about every wall in the cottage is covered thus and I've taken to easels, of which I have three dotted about the place....I'm forbidden to buy any more paintings My stairwell has my collection of signed photos of singers.

I love the photographer's reflection...

[Roger Webb]

I love the photographer's reflection...

That's actually a painting on the opposite wall called 'Old man with beard and camera'

[french frank]

Thanks for the offer, ff, but my experience of 'self-adhesive ' coat hooks is thatthey come unadhesive at inconvenient moments.

I've tried two kinds. The first one indeed behaved as you say. When a small watercolour and pinboard in the hall descended abruptly with a crash I decided I hadn't read the instructions properly. I rehung the pinboard but some hours later it again descended abruptly. But the current hooks are of a different kind. The pins of ordinary metal picture hooks have buckled under the shock of being hammered into the walls, so I gave up on them. Old-fashioned picture rails and the simple curved hooks that went with them were unfailingly efficient.

[AuntDaisy]

That's actually a painting on the opposite wall called 'Old man with beard and camera'

[Roger Webb]

[QUOTE=Roger Webb;n1336165]

Hah! I've finally just hung my last pictures on the wall ........../QUOTE]

So have I, in fact just about every wall in the cottage is covered thus and I've taken to easels, of which I have three dotted about the place....I'm forbidden to buy any more paintings My stairwell has my collection of signed photos of singers.

Edit: photo redacted

Advised by a well-wisher that the photo may void my insurance policy! So instead as per Donald Macleod's, my stairwell. These are the female singers, the males are on the other wall........so, in a way Knobs and Knockers.

[Old Grumpy]

[QUOTE=Roger Webb;n1336182]

Advised by a well-wisher that the photo may void my insurance policy! So instead as per Donald Macleod's, my stairwell. These are the female singers, the males are on the other wall........so, in a way Knobs and Knockers.

As recently established by the Supreme Court?

[Roger Webb]

[QUOTE=Old Grumpy;n1336194]

As recently established by the Supreme Court?

That's it! The 'others' have their own space.......counter-tenors, those who habitually perform pants roles....especially Octavian!