they saved heelers brain

Dinner with the English academic Doctor Jill Allaway, her husband Dug and my dear old Mum.

We ate at the Royal Garden in the idyllic South Kildare town of Athy.

Doctor Don't Call Me Professor Allaway presented me with one of her paintings.

"I've been working on it for two years," she murmured.

"What is it?" I asked in some wonderment.

"A picture of your mind," she replied.

"You mean a picture of the mind of whoever is looking at it?" sez I.

"No. I mean your mind." quoth she.

I fell silent.

The silence has lasted till this moment.