Sociable Saturday!

A very sociable day today for me today! I met up with the lovely Lazooligirl for lunch, chortling and guffawing. It was a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon, that went by extremely quickly again!

I'm meeting a friend tonight for drinks, so popping a picture of Nannie Dee, the rather cheeky figurehead on front of the Cutty Sark on here quickly and popping out again! Will check on your blips and catch up tomorrow.

Here's the info about the chilly-chested Nannie Dee...
The ship was named after Cutty Sark, the nickname of the witch Nannie Dee in Robert Burns' 1791 poem Tam o' Shanter. The ship's figurehead, the original carved by Robert Hellyer of Blackwall, shows Nannie Dee in a stark white carving of a bare-breasted woman with long black hair holding a grey horse's tail in her hand. In the poem she wore a linen sark (Scots: a short chemise or undergarment[15]), that she had been given as a child, which explains why it was cutty, or in other words far too short. The erotic sight of her dancing in such a short undergarment caused Tam to cry out "Weel done, Cutty-sark", which subsequently became a well known catchphrase. Originally, carvings by Hellyer of the other scantily clad witches followed behind the figurehead along the bow, but these were removed by Willis in deference to 'good taste'. Tam O'Shanter riding Meg was to be seen along the ship's quarter. The motto, Where there's a Willis away, was inscribed along the taffrail.[16] The Tweed, which acted as a model for much of the ship which followed her, had a figurehead depicting Tam o'Shanter