The Proposal

I was baby-sitting my grand-daughter last night. She's 8 and is very bright. She's looking forward to going to Electric Picnic in September and, as soon as I arrived, quizzed me on which singers I knew/had met. The fact that Lisa Hannigan was in there impressed her no end. She's very clued in and a very busy little lady too.

The picture on the right caught my eye - one of her recent works and painted with oils, she told me. I immediately saw a guy who looked like he was proposing to a girl and asked her what was happening in the picture.

It's a man proposing to a strange girl, I was told. (I think she has a future as a great artist - she's caught it beautifully) but...

I commented that the girl didn't look 'strange' and she patiently explained that she wasn't, that she was beautiful but the man didn't know her so she was a stranger. Obvious!

I asked her why the man was taking such a big step when he didn't even know the girl.

Because she's so beautiful, I was scornfully informed.

Now I'm wondering about her values.