Almond-skinned beauties

A number of have friends have inquired why I chose to illustrate my last posting about Maguire with a picture of a rather wizened grey monkey.

I can assure you, however, that it was NOT a monkey. This is genuinely what Maguire looks like.

But a very understandable mistake to make, nonetheless. No apology required.

This picture though is of a much more handsome chap altogether - Jamie, from Terinea, who is doing up my website. He is the techno-guy.

Doing a great job of it. You'll just love the new-look blog, I know you will. And he's even dug up a number of tasty pictures to daub around the periphery of the blog. You know the sort of thing - stuff that might be pertinent to The Well-Tempered Clavier book like pictures of Bach, sheet-music, et cetera ...

"And I've got a picture of a really gorgeous Asian girl!" trilled Jamie. "Lovely almond-skin. Just gorgeous. She'll be perfect!"

"Ahh," I said, temporizing a little. "Interesting. Tell me, Jamie, why do we want a picture of a gorgeous Asian girl on this web site?"

"Well I thought this guy, the hero of the book, was having a fling with an Indian bird ..."

"What?" I said. "What! Have you gone totally insane? She is not some Indian bird, no! Her name happens to be INDIA."

He was like a dog with a bone on this one. "So she doesn't have almond-skin?"

"No, No, and for the last time NO!" I said. "Her name is India, but she is totally caucasian. Do you think that everyone called Paris wears a beret and onions round their neck?"

Well, honestly ...