In my own shadow

Oil on hardboard 8" x 8" £65 (British pounds) plus postage & packing

There's a custom up here in the north of England of celebrating "Whitsuntide". At least there used to be a custom. I don't think people bother much these days except that we get a Spring bank holiday. However, when I was little each church used to have processions on Whit Sunday (the feast of Pentecost which is the 7th Sunday after Easter) and the tradition was that all the children had new clothes bought for them. So here I am in my new clothes. My mother sometimes took us to see a "stately home" to see how the other half lived :-D so that is one in the background. It makes me laugh because it isn't that much different in appearance to a cotton mill. I feel a bit sorry for the kid in the painting, keeping her hat on and clutching her little plastic handbag. I didn't feel sorry for myself then though - I think I was kind of proud!
This is the twelfth painting in the "Not the Sheila I know" series.