Call me arty. Call me something, anyway.

I’m in the middle of a ridiculously busy couple of weeks, so in place of one of my usual ‘witty’ and ‘well-argued’ posts, here are a small selection of pictures that I recently put up on my Picfair site.

I still don’t even have time to catch up with anyone else, but I will in a week or so. Honest!

Marionettes, masks and puppets in a shop window display.

Arches and columns reflected in floodwaters.

Gondolas. It’s Venice, there have to be gondolas.

Umbrellas. It’s raining. You get umbrellas.

Chairs in a rainy St Mark’s Square.

The Venetian version of a backstreet. Or backwater. Whatever.