from children's exercises in creative writing:
"We all sat round the table on that baking hot September afternoon. All ten of us, all brothers, and our prim and proper father. Why we had to sit there in our big heavy coats I don't know. But our father made us. Of course he took his off to reveal his cool white and blue silk shirt. We were there because we had been naughty. Benjamin and his lot had put graffiti on the new painting in the drawing room. And on top of that all ten of us had performed our pop group 'Oldies' on Sunday, strictly forbidden. Dad found out and so we all had to study the Bible in the summer hols, to learn about the Ten Commandments and the sabbath. But I didn't mind because 'Oldies' our pop group had a booking that evening at the local disco."
from A Teachers' Guide to Using Portraits Susan Morris
Copyright English Heritage
The Somerset House Conference
by Unknown artist
oil on canvas, 1604 NPG 665
Copyright National Portrait Gallery, London
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