Sunday 15 March 2009

Guido Reni Salome with the head of St John the Baptist

Guido Reni Salome with the head of St John the BaptistGuido Reni CleopatraGuido Reni Reni CharityFrancois Boucher The Setting of the SunFrancois Boucher The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Nanny Ogg also kept a cat, a huge one-eyed grey torn called Greebo who divided his time between sleeping, eating and fathering the most enormous incestuous feline tribe. He opened his eye like a yellow window into Hell when he heard Granny's broomstick land awkwardly on the back lawn. With the instinct of his kind he the effect she had tried to plait violets and cowslips in it. The result was not all she had hoped. It gave the impression that a window box had fallen on her head.
'Good evening,' said Granny.
'Well met by moonlight,' said Magrat politely. 'Merry meet. A star shines on—'
'Wotcha,' said Nanny Ogg. Magrat winced.
Granny sat down and started removing the pins that nailed her tall hat to her bun. Finally the sight of Magrat dawned on her.recognised Granny as an inveterate cat-hater and oozed gently under a chair.Magrat was already seated primly by the fire.It is one of the few unbendable rules of magic that its practitioners cannot change their own appearance for any length of time. Their bodies develop a kind of morphic inertia and gradually return to their original shape. But Magrat tried. Every morning her hair was long, thick and blond, but by the evening it had always returned to its normal worried frizz. To ameliorate

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