Refined and cultured me

I've just checked Ben's blog for today's entertainment, and he has posted about the Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel. After this week's wild and feral posts, I thought perhaps this was a fitting moment to drop in one of those 'I'm a refined, continentally-travelled, sophisticated, cultured, artistic, well-read sort of person' lines and say, very casually, like it's a commonplace occurence, "oh, yes, when I was Vienna I saw the Bruegel exhibit".

I really did. I got on a plane in Townsville, leaving the sweltering tropics and their wild animals behind me, and got off in winter Vienna, December 15. It was magic. It was an exhibit of the Pieters and one of the Jans and it was simply marvellous.

Anyway, that just provided the perfect opportunity for adjusting public perception ... :)