Girls would turn the colour of an avocado

Wednesday column

People can be so ready to make assumptions. Take this lovely work by Van Gogh.

Most people look at it and say, Well obviously these are simple peasant folk.

But no.

This is in fact a portrait of Parisian brainboxes Pierre and Marie Curie. After a morning of getting radiation all over them, Pierre and Marie would like nothing more than to wander down the …