In a neat piece of meta-art, local artist Dominic Ramos has sent us a fine photograph of the fine mural he painted which you might have noticed adorning the wall opposite the Quaker House in Friars’ Walk for the last few weeks. Dominic scrawled an impromptu press release on a piece of paper in the pub for us, describing the mural’s subject, a late-medieval friar, pushing a barrow in a garden full of the sort of vegetables likely to have been grown in those times. In the foreground is a ‘trug’ (a kind of period local basket); in the background are several Sussex breed cows. Local gardener Andrew Hale posed as the friar; the piece was commissioned by Cindy Holmes, whose wall it is, and who runs the health food shop on Cliffe High Street. The mural is a neat trompe l’oeil: we love its perspective, particularly in the foreground, and we love the trug.