How’s that for a clickbait title! But it’s not really clickbait. This bookmark comes from the Prado Museum in Spain and shows a detail from Goya’s painting Las mozas del cántaro. Which, when I looked it up online, is officially translated as Women carrying Pitchers.
But that’s not what the bookmark calls it. On the back, a picture of which I’ve included in case you don’t believe me, the painting is called Cantareras and is translated as The girls with the jugs. This made me wonder if that’s what “cantareras” really means, so I tossed it into the Internet’s translation machine and got “singing bowls.” I figured this couldn’t be right so I asked a fellow who knows Spanish for some help. And he only thought “cantarera” might be a kind of mushroom. So who knows what’s going on?
Anyway, here are some girls with jugs for everyone to enjoy.
Book: Goya by Robert Hughes
Alex Good 
Maybe someone was on some mushrooms when they created that bookmark?
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It’s hard to explain what was going on with the title they came up with. But maybe I’m just cynically looking to drive up traffic. We’ll see how that pans out!
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Yeah, good luck with that whole “driving traffic” scheme.
I’d recommend a series of posts on “How To…” and start with how to create your own bootleg maple syrup.
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Driving traffic isn’t my specialty, that’s for sure! Making syrup is too time consuming for most people.
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Well, maybe your first tutorial could be on how to retire. My advice has always been “win the lottery, duh!”. I mean, how much simpler can it get?
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Anybody can retire! Sure, you may not like it if you’re living in a box eating cat food, but you can retire.
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If it’s good enough for Princess Fluffy, it’s good enough for everybody.
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I suspect that in fifty years time we will look back at how we treated our pets and envy their lives of affluence. It may be the majority of us won’t be living nearly as well.
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Well, you and I certainly won’t be. We’ll be mouldering in our graves after all.
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Yeah, I sometimes think about joining the century-plus crowd. But then I think of the really old people I know and it doesn’t seem like a lot of fun. Better to just check out.
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I already wrote a comment and it’s not here!
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Ok that’s twice it hasn’t worked – maybe your spam folder is getting it.
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Maybe if I reply to myself it’ll work….
Cántaros is an earthenware pitcher as depicted in your book mark, cántareros is anything to do with them, i.e the potter who made them, the guy who sells them or the wooden structure they’re stored in.
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Yay! 😁
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Are all your comments here? There’s nothing in the spam folder.
That makes sense about cantaneros. Do you spend a lot of time holidaying in Spain?
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2 comments are M.I.A but no worries, I got there is the end. Prior to being married to the current Mr.Fraggle I had a boyfriend who lived in Spain, so visited quite often for a couple of years.
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Ah, that’s the best way to pick up the language. I think I remember pics you posted of your time in Spain a while back.
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To be precise, it’s The Groupies with the Singing Jugs. They were a three-piece band, a la Stray Cats, with hits like “Flood This Town” and “The Juggernaut Strut.” Lead singer Bruno Seltzer went on to play big band music.
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Ohhhh, I remember those guys. Feline Casanovas. They could probably play the jugs. A good fit for their rockabilly sound.
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