"Hearing aids at Play"

A few years ago I was given a most splendid hearing aid by the NHS. About time too. I was starting to become a recluse. Dinner parties, talks,workshops, cocktail parties were all impossible because I couldn't hear. I loved my hearing aid, but unfortunately I got drunk one day and when I went to put it in the next day there was no sign of it. Misery. Shame. I couldn't bring myself to admit to the NHS that I'd gone and got drunk and lost the wonderful thing.
I went on line and found splendid hearing aids, but they were all hugely expensive. I decided my pride wasn't worth £3,000 or more, so I phoned the NHS and owned up. The darlings made me a new one that was even more splendid than the one I'd lost and what's more it seemed to have a face on it. It has an amiable expression. I'd always felt that the bit that goes into my ear looks a bit indecent, like an alligators foetus. (Not that I've seen such a thing, but you know what I mean.)
One day I went into my studio after a long lay off (due to being invaded by a miserable virus) and the studio was cold and dusty and I couldn't think what to paint. So I swept the floor. Then, suddenly, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I removed my hearing aid and looked at it carefully. YES, it would make an excellent model. I drew it and I drew it and I drew it. When I knew it really well I started to place it on the paper. Long story short. I hardly had to change it at all. About six of them dance across the paper. The alligator bit looks rather like a Barbara Hepworth sculpture because it's got a hole in it. I named it "Hearing aids at Play". I used water colour and a bit of gouache and in due course it came back from the framer and was hung on the wall. It may be my masterpiece. I shall never sell it. I shall try to post it on my Facebook wall, but I may not manage to do that because I'm really STUPID with putting things on Facebook.