Falstaff statue

The things I do to get a blip! I was up and out bright and early today to get to Stratford before the crowds - I wanted to get a shot of this statue to share with you. It is is one of many memorials to Shakespeare that can be found in Stratford-upon-Avon. You can see Shakespeare seated at the rear of the picture. He's surrounded by life-size statues of some of his most famous characters: Lady Macbeth; Prince Hal; Hamlet; Henry V and this chap, Falstaff.

Sir John Falstaff is depicted as a fat, vain, boastful, and cowardly knight - a comic figure - who appears in three of Shakespeare's plays and this statue by Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower captures him beautifully.