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You little liar!

That looks so realistic to me it looks like Stanley lane aspull going to Toddington its so good.

Great job Mick, how have you done that?

I bet you wished you had painted that Mick. You have been 'enhancing', and deleting. If the nuns were about they would have boxed your ears and put you behind the blackboard.

I like your sense of humour Mick. Very amusing. I can only say that the signpost was in fact the whole point of the photograph. For me it's a rather incongruous legacy of another time and Phil's subtle handling of its rusting flaky paint a highlight of the work.

Not exactly mellow yellow, Mick. You're a rum lad.

I notice the poles and lines that Mick wouldn't have included are still visible.

Roy I only gave it a quickie going over and left a bit in so that those who might think Im an expert painter like the others who have submitted fake paintings

Mick: In the White blob where the Sign used to be, is the image of a large dog with a black Nose, and on the right a blue seagull.
That's brill the way you put those in.

And just below the dog with the black nose, we have what appears to me to be a modern day interpretation of the biblical ' burning bush '. That's brilliant that is Mick!.....
And just to the left of the burning bush, there seems to be a couple of Noel Chadwick's celebrated pork sausages, in the process of ascending to heaven. How cool is that?...I doubt that even Michaelangelo could have come up with that one.....Now not being a regular churchgoer myself , I have to own that I'm not familiar with the parable of the ascending sausages....although I have little doubt that there may be one or two on here that are.
You'll have to interfere with people's paintings more often Mick. It livens the site up no end.

Ozy..You may be alluding to the little known work, "Nebuchadnezz" [and his sausage]. For years considered a work by William Blake but recently discovered to be a fake by the infamous Spanish forger Pablo Chorizo. It was the faint outline of a Benidorm stop sign that eventually gave it away.