It’s been another frustating week. The house sale has been pushed back another couple of weeks. I stand the chance of losing the house I’m after and am having to placate vendors, purchasers, solicitors, estate agents and concerned friends and aquaintances. Whilst trying to carry on with my life whilst half of my posessions are packed […]
It’s out of my hands. And I’m having to accept that. Accept the fact that there’s nothing I can do. At the moment. Because someone who I’ve never met, and never likely to meet, has made a decision not to buy the house they originally wanted in Watford, it means their vendors aren’t selling their house, […]
I know they say moving house is stressful. I’m aware of it. And I’ve tried to deal with the daily problems in a sensible and realistic way, keeping communications open. But, I’m doubly aware of the stress, no quadrupably, aware of it THIS week! Without going into the boring legal stuff of describing the minute details […]
Talking to a good friend from foreign shores yesterday, he mentioned in passing that when he first started reading my blog a couple of years ago, that it seemed that everytime I wrote there was a new drawing or painting of mine to view and comment on. And he was right, there was. But there […]
I’ve just finished reading a book. A very long and thorouglhy enjoyable and very popular book – “The pillars of the earth” by Ken Follet- about the building of a cathedral in the twelfth century in England, and the people involved with creating it, their lives and loves, passions and hatreds. And it struck me as […]
On deciding one warm and sunny night this week that a fresh pizza and glass of chilled wine at the local pub was a good idea, I was surprised as I placed my order when the pizza chef greeted me with a smile and enquired “How’s your exhibition going?” I was taken aback, since I’ve not seen him […]
I was early. I had made a point of being early. Because I wasn’t sure what to expect, this was ALL new territory for me! I walked in to the reception at Radio Derby and was greeted by a smiling black girl – hardly surprising since this was the “African Caribbean Experience” show that I was […]
Well the Burton Library exhibition is going well and I’ve had some really good feedback from it already! But sometimes its not the selling of the art that brings in the results. It’s a bit like fishing, you throw the bait out and are never quite sure what you’re going to land from it…. For […]